Jackie Calmes joined The New York Times as a national correspondent in August 2008 and covered the presidential election, the financial crisis and the first five years of the Obama administration. Today she has a broad mandate to cover politics and policy. Formerly, she worked at The Wall Street Journal for 18 years. Calmes covered Congress, elections, the Clinton and Bush administrations, and often focused on fiscal policy. She was chief political correspondent at The Wall Street Journal from 2005 to 2008. In 2005, she received the Gerald R. Ford Journalism Prize for Reporting on the Presidency. While at the Shorenstein Center, she wrote about partisan media.
Jackie Calmes of the Los Angeles Times: Conservative Media and U.S. Politics
October 17, 2017
October 17, 2017—Jackie Calmes, White House editor for the Los Angeles Times Washington bureau, discussed the evolution of conservative media and its relationship with the GOP, and the challenges of covering the White House, during a visit to the Shorenstein Center. Calmes also discussed the historical roots of conservative media, its messaging about race, funding
