Swing States Project Archive
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Pennsylvania, a niche site with wide reach PoliticsPA drives political conversation in Keystone State
By Ken Knelly
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The future of factchecking Here's what journalists should learn from the 2012 campaign
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Can people afford to lose their Social Security COLA? So far, the press has given this public policy concern the brush off
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What if there are fewer polls in 2016? Is the editor-in-chief of Gallup’s warning a nightmare vision or… sort of beguiling?
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
Dart: CBS and the Goldman Sachs solution Another weak showing on Social Security
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
‘Resetting’ The Plain Dealer What’s to become of Cleveland’s daily, a bright spot in Ohio's coverage of election 2012?
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Closer look at a cash cow Denver's KUSA says newsroom's "Truth Tests" set high bar for campaign-ad vetting
By Mary Winter
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In Michigan, a look back on the 2012 campaign A veteran journalist and a young reporter talk about lessons learned
By Anna Clark
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Key stories in the Keystone State Four issues Pennsylvania’s political press should stay on
By Ken Knelly
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Papa John’s Pizza and the business backlash The real story: how some employers are still working to undermine Obamacare
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Election reflections from the Silver State Las Vegas Sun political editor Anjeanette Damon wants face time with presidential candidates, more time with voters
By Jay Jones
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Hope and change in unlikely places Three cheers for campaign coverage from BuzzFeed and the Los Angeles Times
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An election post-mortem on Medicare coverage Coverage? Yes. Guidance? Not so much
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Little Havana turns blue (or maybe not) Choose-your-own-poll-number reporting on the Cuban-American vote
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Predictable in retrospect The dangers of hindsight bias in election postmortems
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Four stories to follow in Virginia What the Commonwealth’s political reporters should focus on now
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What happened, anyway? The election may be over, but the self-protective spin is not
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Campaign Desk, Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A dart to Yahoo Finance For utterly confusing its readers about Social Security
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The fiscal whatchamacallit Media’s embrace of “fiscal cliff” obscures the real story about budget negotiations
By Greg Marx
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
An Ohio election special causes controversy TPM flags some anti-Obama programming on Sinclair stations
By T.C. Brown
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The Ad Wars: Was outside money futile? After Election Day, the press seizes on a new conventional wisdom
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Digital innovation on election night: a report From CJR and Tow Center’s “meta newsroom”
By Mike Hoyt
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
How to cover the presidential results A guide for journalists on election fundamentals and campaign effects
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A Laurel to NPR, for giving hospitals a disaster exam Sandy exposes gaping holes in hospital safety plans
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Election 2012: Welcome to our Meta Newsroom What's happening now in digital election-night news
By The Editors
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Election Day worries in Ohio Lawsuits, provisional ballots, alleged software glitches—and the coverage of it all
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
King Coal rises in PA A last-minute crush of ads—including Romney’s first here—challenges reporters to keep up
By Ken Knelly
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Colorado, $716 billion claim lives on Romney repeats the discredited charge at weekend rally, and it pops up in ads for a Congressional race
By Mary Winter
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Ad Wars: GOP advantage in the House In local races, outside money can tip the scales, and the GOP is trying to do just that
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Was it Obama’s policies—or the pie? Romney ad blames president for Virginia BBQ chain’s closure; locals point to the food, competition
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Analyzing early voting in Nevada Reporting roundup: What might the early numbers tell us?
By Jay Jones
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A missed connection on Michigan’s ballot questions? Bridge battle draws the attention, but Props 1 and 2 could lead to future conflict
By Anna Clark
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Navigating voter guides in North Carolina For voters looking for easy research tools, a few bright spots emerge
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Getting ready for ballot battles in Ohio Reporters explore 'nightmare scenarios'—and offer some practical advice to voters
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Three questions about campaign coverage How the media can do better the next time around (Or, “NOW FOR THE HARD PART”)
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Ask Romney This: What will replace Obamacare? A vague healthcare plan raises many questions
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At Michigan’s edge, global warming emerges as campaign issue But spotty local coverage of House race is sometimes too soft on climate denialism
By Anna Clark
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Toledo Blade disappoints on Jeep-to-China claims For Ohioans targeted by Romney’s misleading rhetoric, the paper confuses more than it clarifies
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The Ad Wars: Romney’s Last-Minute Deceptions Swing state reporters—watch for ninth-inning spitballs
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Social Security: a Laurel to The Motley Fool An investment newsletter breaks down persistent myths
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In Virginia, skirmishes in the voting wars O'Keefe sting, trashed voter forms lead to some solid coverage
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Detroit papers on Romney’s misleading Jeep ad A campaign ad airs in Ohio but gets a close (sometimes muddled) look from Detroit reporters
By Anna Clark
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Pundits versus probabilities The misguided backlash against Nate Silver
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The most potent spin: lies campaigns tell themselves Plus: is a split between the popular vote and Electoral College really so rare?
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
The Ad Wars: a laurel to the Sunlight Foundation Report brings scrutiny to new political ad database
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The momentum behind a misleading narrative Why reporters have been getting the polls wrong in the presidential race
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Ask Obama This: Will we have to be older to get Medicare? We know about Romney’s vouchers, but the president is quiet on the subject of raising eligibility
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In Ohio, campaign coverage is anti-social Reporting on candidates' social media strategies is largely absent in key battleground
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Ask Obama This: Can you imagine criminal justice reform? A nearly forgotten topic that impacts the budget, families, and communities
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‘Pittsburgh is getting pounded’ by ads Top priority race for parties is disturbingly low on local TV news radar
By Ken Knelly
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Swing States Project, The Observatory
Ask Obama and Romney this: What about climate change? Schieffer misses media’s last chance to pop the question on a big stage
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The Ad Wars: Obama’s special message in Spanish A review of Obama’s and Romney’s Spanish-language TV ads finds contrasts in style, strategy, and sophistication
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Let Detroit do what?
By Mike Hoyt
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Ask Obama and Romney this: Where is Africa? An enormous opportunity for the US could slip past
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Covering the search for noncitizen voters AP’s Ivan Moreno won well-deserved praise for staying on the (incredible shrinking) story in Colorado
By Mary Winter
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Ask Obama and Romney This: What if China squares off with Japan? An emerging, and little discussed, dilemma
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Scare-mongering from CBS Bad reporting on Social Security—again
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How could voters still be undecided? Try asking them Plus, why this veteran campaign correspondent is focused on swing-state polls
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In Florida, debate night isn’t front-page news Editors at Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post defend decision on Senate race coverage
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Awash in ads in Roanoke At WDBJ, welcome transparency and a commitment to coverage—but room for improvement, too
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The ‘Man in the Middle’ hits a healthcare Catch-22 Å family falls through a gap in Obamacare
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Laurels to Politico and National Journal For exposing the shady side of the campaign-industrial complex
By Greg Marx
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In MI-11, a candidate ducks, but can’t avoid coverage Detroit Free Press digs in to Bentivolio's background, though local outlets can do more on the money beat
By Anna Clark
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Hey, big spender Virginia’s Senate race is drawing major outside spending—Bob Perry’s million bucks included. Reporters here have more to do
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When factchecking goes ‘gray’ Two Denver news outlets made similar dissections of an attack ad but arrived at not-so-similar conclusions
By Mary Winter
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The Ad Wars: Is the IRS throwing in the towel on political nonprofits? Politico identifies thirteen "social welfare" groups misleading the IRS
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Nevada media pillory Oceguera attack ad An "outrageous" ad in a House race raises questions—including whether starting a controversy was the aim
By Jay Jones
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All good debate coverage is local? Failings of the national press not mirrored in NH
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The word on the street: worried In New Hampshire voters are fretting about…everything
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Ad Wars: how to expose a dishonest ‘Social Welfare’ group Telling the IRS one thing, then doing another
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
As ads flood Ohio House race, will coverage keep up? A review finds some solid work, but there's room for more enterprising journalism
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Does Cuba matter? Not to national media But some reporters in South Florida find stories that go beyond clichés
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Denver Post ducks the $716 billion question Real-time factchecking is hard, but coverage of House debate was just too thin
By Mary Winter
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Time to head to the track With voting underway, there's nothing wrong with providing the horse race coverage readers crave
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Ask Romney This: What will you do about
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Healthcare—reform in Great Britain vs. the USA:
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Healthcare in Great Britain vs. healthcare in the USA: part one A conversation with Chris Smyth, health reporter for The Times of London
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The debate: Some healthcare ‘facts’ that
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Covering the role of coal in Virginia Coal is central to the campaign message war and money story here—but reporting has not kept up
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Enabling the jobs report conspiracy theory The consequences of careless coverage of Friday's unemployment numbers
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The Ad Wars: The strange silence on foreign policy In presidential campaign ads, there have been 22 mentions of jobs for every reference to Iraq and Afghanistan wars
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
How to cover the horse race? Ohio’s press-watchers weigh in on the contest between campaigns and reporters
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Ask Obama This: Where’s your short-term jobs plan? A missed chance at the debate creates an important opportunity for reporters on the trail
By Greg Marx
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Ad Wars: From every source, a different number What should reporters do to provide the best information to their audience?
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
Medicare costs: Are electronic records the solution—or the problem? A Laurel to the Center for Public Integrity for an expose on "upcoding"
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Breaking the pack journalism paradigm What would happen if reporters covered debates without access to the spin?
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Debate advice: Turn off Twitter To hear like a voter you have to listen
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Michigan media on voter fraud The story in the state so far—and what’s missing from it
By Anna Clark
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Protecting the polls in North Carolina As voter fraud allegations swirl, North Carolinians need deep, focused reporting
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The word on the street: Divided Massachusetts voters talk about Medicare, and their Senate race
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Oklahoman distributes a hit piece on Obama Do a new owner's deep pockets require a "trade-off"?
By Erika Fry
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Pinning down Obama on Social Security Where exactly does he stand?
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
As campaigns cross Ohio, Romney stops to talk Blade seeks tax plan clarity, while Plain Dealer revisits coal policy, auto bailout
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Florida, a poll grabs headlines—and raises questions The situation for the GOP may not be as dire as Quinnipiac's results suggest
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The Ad Wars: Super PACs not super? Not so fast The Journal’s flawed logic on page one
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A clamor for air time in the Silver State Chris Roman, GM of four Spanish-language TV stations in Nevada, on the messaging frenzy
By Jay Jones
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
How the phantom of ‘socialized medicine’ came to be A Laurel to The New Yorker for exploring the roots of modern political consulting
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Ad Wars: The numbers don’t add up When it comes to political ad spending, we don’t know as much as we think we do
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Will Obama really ‘break the fever’? Why more journalists should question the President's second-term claims
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Eureka! The media discovers Medicaid And why that matters to the middle class
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After VA Senate debate, how to cover Kaine’s gaffe? While most outlets include some policy coverage, WashPost sticks with a strategy story
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The bogeyman is back!
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Mitt-o-phobia The real reasons for harsh Romney coverage
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
CU students probe Denver ad buy records Research reveals Obama's advantage on the airwaves
By Mary Winter
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A laurel to The Denver Post For strong editorial judgment in its coverage of the "47 percent" story
By Greg Marx
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
As Senate ad war heats up, time for press to step up Readers need closer scrutiny of campaign messages in Kaine-Allen contest
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Ohio, barbs traded on China trade Cincinnati Enquirer helps readers sort through a few
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
The Ad Wars: How do we cover them? CJR’s guide to the best sources
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Jumping the gun on the Romney ‘47%’ video In early coverage, reporters overstated the meaning and impact of Romney's comments—and left out out key context
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Medicare: Where’s the evidence that vouchers save money? The National Journal seeks some, and comes up empty
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Romney’s welfare ads: Whom do they affect? A consensus about coded racial appeals may be only half right
By Greg Marx
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A laurel to FlackCheck.org For its new guide to video factchecking on air and online
By Greg Marx
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
In Iowa, a ‘flag flap’ flop? A controversy over handling of the flag draws coverage in Cedar Rapids
By Erika Fry
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
How super are the super PACs? A decades-old rule will give more clout to official campaign cash over the next two months, but reporters have barely noticed
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‘Serious, point-of-view journalism’? A look at the most ambitious conservative news organization you’ve never heard of
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What a higher Retirement Age really means A Social Security mini-primer
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ProPublica ‘pull[s] back the curtain’ Justin Elliott shines light on a dark money group in Ohio; reporters there should take note
By T.C. Brown
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Medicare ‘bankruptcy’: CNN gets it right The network fact-checks a frequent talking point, and does it well
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Et tu, Ryan? Ryan Lizza's dubious Bill Clinton quote
By Todd Gitlin
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Keeping facts at the forefront The Detroit News walks readers through Romney’s “new message” on the auto bailouts
By Anna Clark
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Medicare spending: Do Obama and Romney see eye-to-eye? Matthew Yglesias has a flawed but useful argument
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A reporter in Ohio goes on the attack over drones Fox 19's Ben Swann makes waves with tough questions for president about kill list
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
At home with the PPL in Charlotte The grassroots and the establishment create a media workspace at the convention
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After Charlotte: baffled by the horse race A provocative NYT article prompts an extra dose of journalistic humility
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When factcheckers get trigger-happy A checklist to help journalists decide when to take aim
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To follow the political money: a wonderful tool And Virginia's newsrooms are under-using it
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The word on the street: disillusioned Listening to voters talk Medicare in Pennsylvania
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Stupid hat tricks In which CJR’s Justin Peters wears a crown to the convention to see if he can get interviewed
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Democratic convention swag: Who’s paying? A look into the tote bag offers some clues
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Oft-kicked Charlotte kicks off right Swing State Project’s NC correspondent considers the view of her home city from the inside and out
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Speeding up the factcheck cycle The response to Paul Ryan's misleading speech was swift and stern—except in the next morning's front-page stories. Can journalists change that?
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Kasich, out of context After HuffPost's story makes the Ohio governor's words appear inflammatory, an update won't do
By T.C. Brown
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Packing up and shipping out in Tampa Jeb Bush gives reporters one last local news hook on RNC's final night
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Parsing Romney on healthcare Chris Wallace gets a C minus
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Economic Crisis, Swing States Project, The Audit
The Wall Street Journal lets Paul Ryan go all but unchecked Misleading claims get ignored or given he said-she said treatment
By Ryan Chittum
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
A dart to the AP—and a laurel! Good work on fact-checking speeches; on Social Security, not so much
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One last night on the outskirts in Tampa Welsh cakes, a protest that wasn't, and the rest of the scene from the RNC
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Read? Listen? Who has the time? At political conventions, journalists get preliterate
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How ‘half true’ happens Our correspondent sits in as PolitiFact editors rate Nikki Haley's claim
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Checking the foundation of ‘We Built It’ In many Virginia papers, coverage of McDonnell's convention speech is a let-down
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Ignored factchecks and the media’s crisis of confidence Whatever campaigns may do, aggressive truth-telling is the right approach for reporters
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In Florida, convention coverage ranges from abundant to absent The Tampa papers go all-in, while the Sun Sentinel goes missing
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Following up on a promise of jobs The Salisbury Post in North Carolina talks to manufacturing workers still waiting on a call back to work
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A celebration of access in Tampa Conventions are about getting in to the place worth being
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It’s morning in the Tampa Convention Center Swing States Project’s Florida correspondent takes it all in
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Conventions: A great learning opportunity for voters Why the debate over a lack of news misses the point
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In defense of convention coverage Thoughts from a veteran political reporter who still gets butterflies
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Currents, Swing States Project
Rethinking objectivity: a recall case An intern gets canned in Wisconsin because she signed a petition. Why?
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Tampa Bay Times’s convention-eve welcome The paper’s Sunday piece is strong (cringe-making Florida boosterism aside)
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Michigan media on Romney’s birth certificate ‘joke’ (UPDATED) Some news outlets let it slide—unexplained, unchallenged
By Anna Clark
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A laurel to Jackie Calmes of The New York Times She begins to X-ray the Romney/Ryan Medicare plan
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The word on the street: apprehensive Listening to voters talk about Medicare in St. Louis
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Backstory: the reporter who interviewed Akin The Jaco Report reconsiders the moment
By Mike Hoyt
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Medicare and the $716 billion bogeyman Will a new version of a half-truth work for the GOP?
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Last week’s GOP local TV blitz What did candidates—and viewers—get from it?
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‘That muddy water’ of fairness With “Line of Attack," Sun evaluates “legit," “laughable” campaign claims
By Jay Jones
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What makes Mitt tick? We need more tick-tock from the press pack about why Romney chose Paul Ryan
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A laurel to The Atlantic’s Garance Franke-Ruta For calling on reporters to repeat the truth as often as needed, and showing how to do it
By Greg Marx
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project, The Observatory
Covering Romney in Ohio’s coal country Visit draws sharp questions from across state line, and solid stories from big-city papers
By T.C. Brown
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A super resource on super PACs in Virginia Early coverage puts VPAP database to good use, but there are opportunities to do more
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Medicare, Paul Ryan, and beyond: a primer Here’s context to clarify the big entitlements debates
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Don’t just look at the money—follow it! Can Michigan media tell us why a bailout opponent is collecting big bucks from Wall Street?
By Anna Clark
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A sharp Herald item on Ryan’s surprising Cuba record Keyed to local community, paper digs up veep pick's past opposition to embargo
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Assignment desk: The authoritative take
on Colorado’s controversial secretary of state A closer look at Scott Gessler could bring readers past the voter-fraud boilerplateBy Mary Winter
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Estimating crowds: size matters Reporters wrestle with the numbers as Romney and Ryan draw larger audiences
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The man who explains politics in—and to—PA When reporters need “here’s-what-it-all-means” context, they call Terry Madonna
By Ken Knelly
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Covering Paul Ryan’s big day in Virginia The Times-Dispatch casts a wide net to deliver a strong package for its readers
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The best political listening tour “Ordinary person” quotes in political stories can be banal. But when reporters invest the time, they can hear so much more
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Defining ‘open and accessible’ in Charlotte Why reporters should write about the obstacles to covering the Democratic convention
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In Ohio, misleading messages about military voting The state's major papers challenge claims about the motives behind an Obama lawsuit
By T.C. Brown
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On Vegas reporters on Reid on Romney How Reid’s evidence-free claims about Romney’s taxes were covered in the Senate Majority Leader’s home state
By Jay Jones
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Another factchecking fiasco Journalistic failure in coverage of Harry Reid and his mysterious source
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For Obama in Ohio, a mix of substance and pageantry In Akron, coverage leans too far toward softer stuff, but other outlets do better
By T.C. Brown
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Why did Mitt Romney really go to Israel? Despite what you read, it probably had little to do with wooing undecided Jewish voters
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The Gore-ing of Mitt Romney Poisonous cycle of gotcha coverage and access restrictions recalls an earlier campaign
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In sports or politics, you can’t tell the players without a scorecard Times-Dispatch coverage of voter registration controversy skimps on partisan angle
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Required skimming: campaign finance
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
Dart to HuffPo for ‘awesome scoop’ For enabling Harry Reid’s game of telephone sourcing on Romney's taxes
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Follow the story, not the agenda How to (and how not to) cover campaign "events," like Biden's recent Detroit speech
By Anna Clark
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Does journalistic ‘balance’ hurt America? What if Washington's dysfunction was mostly one party's fault: A Q&A with Thomas Mann
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Big ad spending, little press scrutiny NC journalists need to stay on the story of the political ad spending spree
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
Laurels to the Las Vegas Sun and News & Record For a strong ad factcheck, and for grappling with campaigns' message control
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In VA, allegations of racism ignite a controversy After national conservative media seize on a state senator’s words, local reporters pick up the story
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What to remember about the ‘war over women’ Press is right to focus on the contest, but polls showing major shift deserve a closer look
By T.C. Brown
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Medicare and misinformation Is my premium rising? A beat memo for reporters
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The press botches the tax debate—again Narratives and ignorance trump accuracy in descriptions of Democratic proposal
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With a series of strong stories, Sun’s Damon shines Articles ID big-money groups, track transparency battles, and call out a "laughable" ad
By Jay Jones
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False balance and the Medicare scare Who’s been telling the truth in Florida?
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Follow-the-money stories Colorado reporters should do Some suggestions for what to look at now and where to look
By Mary Winter
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On Florida’s ‘anything but monolithic’ Hispanic voters Miami Herald, Tampa Bay Times raise the reporting bar
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How undisclosed money works its way in OpenSecrets, Morning Call report on “financial gymnastics” in PA Senate primary
By Ken Knelly
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The real question about Romney’s Bain career How, exactly, did his business career prepare the candidate to be president?
By Greg Marx
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The Globe advances the Romney/Bain story Meanwhile, MoJo digs into Romney’s investments in offshoring
By Greg Marx
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How to handle oppo research? It’s simple: If your scoop got a helpful boost from a campaign, let readers know
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An indictment in North Carolina After NC Policy Watch investigates, a lawmaker faces criminal charges
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Darts and Laurels, Swing States Project
A dart to the campaign press corps ...for acquiescing to that whole "quote approval" thing
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Cincinnati Enquirer unpacks campaign claims Ohioans will need more help from their media navigating candidates' rhetoric
By T.C. Brown
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
On outsourcing, Colorado media mostly disappoint But there's still an opportunity to deliver the full account this story needs
By Mary Winter
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Roanoke Times excels at campaign ‘event coverage’… …But will the paper turn its resources toward the rhetoric?
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Campaign Desk, Swing States Project
Unanswered questions in the Romney/Bain controversy Don't look to fact-checkers for resolution
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