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Articles tagged political reporting (66)

Chris HannayNovember 20, 2012

Citizen journalism across the 49th parallel: How The Globe and Mail used expats to cover the U.S. election

The newspaper wanted to show the American election through Canadian eyes. Here’s what they learned along the way.

Jonathan StrayOctober 31, 2012

Data, uncertainty, and specialization: What journalism can learn from FiveThirtyEight’s election coverage

Nate Silver’s number-crunching blog is perceived as a threat by some traditional political reporters — but its model has lessons for all journalists.

Adrienne LaFranceSeptember 18, 2012

Andrea Seabrook: From NPR to podcasting, hoping to invigorate congressional reporting

After a decade with NPR, Seabrook wants to get beyond process to cover policy and the structures that determine how Congress works.

PolitiFact editor Bill Adair in the "Star Chamber"

Andrew PhelpsAugust 21, 2012

Inside the Star Chamber: How PolitiFact tries to find truth in a world of make-believe

As Bill Adair’s fact-checking enterprise turns five, PolitiFact is responding to criticism and adding a little structure to how it decides what’s True, Pants on Fire, or somewhere in between.

How BuzzFeed wants to reinvent wire stories for social media

Ben Smith wants to increase the impact of breaking news and decrease the echo from redundant reporting. Justin Ellis

Justin EllisJuly 2, 2012

Huffington Post puts polling power in the hands of developers with new API

The news outlet’s first API offers up poll results as well as detailed methodology data.

Politwoops catches pols (or their staff) before they can hit “Delete”

MinnPost tracks new (and stalled) laws with Bill Explorer

The news app allows readers to visualize and dive into the issues that were big at the state capitol. Justin Ellis

Adrienne LaFranceMay 16, 2012

For its 2012 elections coverage, MTV swaps out citizen journalism for gamification

MTV, the Knight Foundation, and a collection of news organizations are teaming up to produce a fantasy-football-style election game.

PubliCola, 2009-2012: How a Seattle news startup built an audience but not a business

Founder Josh Feit says the operation could never gain the business-side momentum needed to turn the local politics site into a sustainable organization. Antonio Jiménez

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