Politics

For Campaign Coverage, Web Too Often an Afterthought

‘Big news projects on the campaign are still conceived in The Washington Post's newsroom as traditional newspaper stories.’
June 15, 2008
Russ Walker

Election Coverage Becomes a Time for “Instant Innovation”

At the Knoxville News Sentinel, bloggers were invited to steer good political coverage to the eyes of the newspaper's online readers.
June 15, 2008
Jack Lail

Shifting Influence: From Institution to Individual

‘Inheriting the old order was not an option for my generation of journalists.‘
June 15, 2008
John Harris

Young Reporters, New Tools, and Political Reporting

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.
June 15, 2008
Liz Nord

Adding Radio and Video Web Casts to Political News in Print

‘… am I becoming the first correspondent in my paper’s history who has no time to think?’
June 15, 2008
Pekka Mykkänen

Only the Reader Sleeps

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.’
June 15, 2008
Kate Phillips

Fast-Paced Journalism’s Neglect of Nuance and Context

‘In online reporting, news breaks and context is often added later.’
June 15, 2008
Sam Stein

Trivial Pursuit: It Happens Too Often in Political Coverage

‘… some of the worst features of campaign reporting emanate from the kinds of psychological defenses that reporters erect to deal with their insecurities.’
June 15, 2008
Christopher Hayes

New Media Battles Old to Define Internet-Era Politics

The media are constantly on the lookout for the odd moment that might capture some revealing truth about a candidate — and, ideally, create a feeding frenzy that consumes the…
June 15, 2008
John McQuaid

Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth

‘Through our Truth-O-Meter, we graphically show the relative truth of each claim.’
June 15, 2008
Bill Adair