Season 29 • Episode 1
LatestWashington Journal is an American television series on the C-SPAN network in the format of a political call-in and interview program. The program features elected officials, government administrators and journalists as guests, answering questions from the hosts and from members of the general public, who call into the studio or submit questions via e-mail and social media. The three-hour program airs every day of the year beginning at 7 a.m. Eastern Time, except when special events or coverage of Congress preempts all or part of the program. The audio of the program also airs on WCSP-FM as a simulcast with the television broadcast.
Production
Zero-frills format lets callers steal the show.
Writing
Unscripted democracy: beautiful, broken, bizarre.
Creator
Brian Lamb
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Brian Lamb founded C-SPAN after Congress let cameras in 1979; he personally hosted Washington Journal for 25 years before finally retiring in 2008.
The show accidentally archived the evolution of American political discourse from fax-machine earnestness to Facebook-brained call-ins.
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