Topic: Politics

Covering the Web as a Force in Electoral Politics
‘During the past year and a half … I've been consistently surprised by the volume of calls we get from journalists asking for help understanding this new medium.’
By Micah L. Sifry

It’s an Online World for Young People and Political News
‘My generation doesn't trust what the lone anchor tells us, nor the pundit, nor the panel of experts.’
By Jonathan Seitz

Reporting From Kansas for MTV’s Street Team
‘If we want to be successful on the Web, it‘s got to be “guerrilla journalism,” edgy and unpredictable.’
By Alex Parker

The Press and the Presidency: Silencing the Watchdog
‘President Bush was obsessed from the beginning of his administration with what he regarded as unjustified intrusions by the press.’
By Murrey Marder

Political Video Barometer
By John Kelly

Don’t Fear Twitter
Using moment-by-moment observations, ‘Twitter entries build a community of readers who find their way to longer articles ….’
By John Dickerson

Political Journalists — Writing for Online Publications
By Tom Fiedler

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.
By Liz Nord

YouTube: The Flattening of Politics
As online video reshapes political coverage, news organizations ignore it ‘at their own peril.’
By Steve Grove

Enclave Extremism and Journalism's Brave New World
Some contend that The Daily Me, a self-designed compendium of news and information, leads to increased political polarization.
By Cass R. Sunstein

Political Blogs: Teaching Us Lessons About Community
In the mediascape of blogs, people ‘want the news delivered to them in the context of their attitudes and beliefs.’
By Dan Kennedy

Bloggers Push Past the Old Media's Gatekeepers
From YouTube to The Huffington Post, new media ‘are upending the presidential campaign process and raising questions about journalism's place in it.’
By Tom Fiedler

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.’
By Kate Phillips

Fast-Paced Journalism's Neglect of Nuance and Context
‘In online reporting, news breaks and context is often added later.’
By Sam Stein

Connecting Congressional Earmarks With Campaign Contributions
An investigative reporter creates a database of earmarks revealing the relationship between wasteful spending and political favors.
By David Heath

Campaign 2008: It‘s on YouTube
Since the last presidential election, the ‘bubble’ in which the press once operated ‘has become a fishbowl.’
By Albert L. May

Winning By Just Losing Less Badly; Edwards Visits Lima to Nibble at GOP
By Stephen Koff

Senate Hopefuls Clash Over Minimum Wage
By Schuyler Kropf

Determining If a Politician Is Telling the Truth
‘Through our Truth-O-Meter, we graphically show the relative truth of each claim.’
By Bill Adair

1950: The Captive Press
How a Senator Can Monopolize the Loudspeaker
By Douglass Cater

Looking Behind the Scenes of Political Coverage
A study compares national presidential press coverage with local reporting on congressional races and emerges with some unexpected findings.
By Shanto Iyengar, William F. Woo & Jennifer McGrady

Agent Orange: Pressing the Government to Take Responsibility
By Wendy Watriss

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Topic: Politics