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WGBH's Media Access Group provided closed captioning and live description of PBS's inauguration coverage, making the historic ceremony accessible to the 36 million Americans with hearing or vision loss.
On television, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer aired LIVE coverage of the inauguration ceremony on WGBH 44 and WGBH World from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. You can watch the complete Newshour broadcast of Barack Obama's presidential inauguration with Descriptive Video Service® courtesy of MacNeil/Lehrer Productions and Dunkin' Donuts.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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