Jamaica Observer staff reporter Kasey Williams will be among a host of journalists from across the world covering the November 5 US elections.

Williams, who is based in Manchester and reports on events in that parish, as well as St Elizabeth and other areas along Jamaica’s south coast, is scheduled to leave the island tomorrow on the ‘Road to the White House’ reporting tour organised by the US State Department’s Foreign Press Center and facilitated by the American Embassy in Kingston.

Williams, will arrive in Phoenix, Arizona where he will join journalists from Argentina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Egypt, Iceland, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mongolia, Philippines, Romania, the United Kingdom, and Zimbabwe.

The group of 15 has been dubbed The Blue Team and will report from swing states Arizona and Pennsylvania.

Another group of 15 journalists, dubbed The Red Team, will also be covering the much-watched election from other battleground states.

Ahead of election day the Blue Team will cover a forum on ‘The Role of Media in the US Election Landscape’ at Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University; look at ‘Voting Accessibility and Integrity’ at Maricopa County Recorder’s Office, which is responsible for the mail voting process and maintains voter registration for more than 2.4 million eligible voters; shadow Republican party community canvassing efforts in Lehigh Valley; and, on November 5, report from polling stations in Pennsylvania.

Williams’ reports will be spread across all the Observer Media Group’s platforms — print, online, radio, and social media.