Politics

As online video reshapes political coverage, news organizations ignore it ‘at their own peril.’

Since the last presidential election, the ‘bubble’ in which the press once operated ‘has become a fishbowl.’

‘Big news projects on the campaign are still conceived in The Washington Post's newsroom as traditional newspaper stories.’

At the Knoxville News Sentinel, bloggers were invited to steer good political coverage to the eyes of the newspaper's online readers.

‘Inheriting the old order was not an option for my generation of journalists.‘

At MTV, the 51 members of Street Team ’08 are experimenting with format, content and distribution as they find stories to tell to a youthful audience.

‘… am I becoming the first correspondent in my paper’s history who has no time to think?’

As political coverage meets the insatiable Web, ‘Reporters and editors have less and less time and more and more responsibilities to file, and to keep filing.’

‘In online reporting, news breaks and context is often added later.’

‘… some of the worst features of campaign reporting emanate from the kinds of psychological defenses that reporters erect to deal with their insecurities.’