The public life beat reporters at the Missourian provided live coverage during Pres. Barack Obama’s State of the Union address on Wednesday. We streamed the speech live and hosted a conversation using Cover It Live, providing links to credible articles whenever the president referenced particular points. The chat had some compelling conversation from people in the community.

Before the event, we also provided additional some stories to get the community up-to-date. Here’s “Links offer information about issues mentioned in President’s address” and “Residents want jobs, health care addressed in President’s speech” (I put together the second story).