Politics

How Trump won the lone electoral vote of Maine’s vast, sparsely populated Second Congressional District

Making improvements in polling, news literacy, and the use of technology is urgent

Public disaffection and candidates' social media strategies force journalists to innovate beyond the horse race

In awarding its Lie of the Year title to Donald Trump last December, the staff at PolitiFact had a lot of material from which to choose.During the first GOP debate…

‘There’s an analogy between statehouse beat reporters—well, beat reporters in general—and cops on the beat who know the neighborhood and everyone in it.’

‘As beat writers know, it’s in doing these routine stories that they sniff out situations worthy of deeper digging.’

It was on a hunch that Marcus Stern, a reporter in the Washington, D.C. bureau of the Copley News Service, launched the investigation that brought down California Congressman Randy “Duke”…

Why are young people turning away from the mainstream media? And where are they going to get their political news and information?

“Given the dynamics of the Web … how do news organizations and journalists best serve political news consumers?”

‘If we want to be successful on the Web, it‘s got to be “guerrilla journalism,” edgy and unpredictable.’