Nilagia McCoy

Republican and Democratic debates

News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Primaries: Horse Race Reporting Has Consequences

Campaigns, Elections & Parties, Papers, Politics & Government, Publications / By

A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of the 2016 presidential primary races and how it affected the candidates’ chances of winning the nomination, concluding that coverage of the primaries focused on the horse race over the issues – to the detriment of candidates […]

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Trudy Lieberman

Trudy Lieberman: How IBT’s Reporting Is Driving a Controversy over a Major Healthcare Merger in Connecticut

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Trudy Lieberman, spring 2001 fellow and press critic for Columbia Journalism Review, writes about how the International Business Times uncovered a conflict of interest in the state’s review of a proposed merger of Anthem and Cigna. Read more in Columbia Journalism Review.

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Paul Wood

The Pen and the Sword: Reporting ISIS

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A new paper by Paul Wood, Joan Shorenstein Fellow (fall 2015) and BBC world affairs correspondent, tells the harrowing story of a kidnapping by ISIS, and examines the ethical dilemmas that arise when reporting on terrorist organizations. Between November 2012 and the summer of 2014, some 24 Western journalists and aid workers were kidnapped and held

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Trump, Clinton and Sanders

Media & Politics Must Reads, June 17, 2016

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Our weekly roundup of news found at the intersection of media, politics, policy and technology, from the Shorenstein Center and from around the web. This Week at the Shorenstein Center Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: Trump’s Rise, Sanders’ Emergence, Clinton’s Struggle. New research finds that during 2015, major news outlets covered Donald

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Pre-Primary News Coverage of the 2016 Presidential Race: Trump’s Rise, Sanders’ Emergence, Clinton’s Struggle

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A new report from Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy analyzes news coverage of the 2016 presidential candidates in the year leading up to the primaries. This crucial period, labeled “the invisible primary” by political scientists, is when candidates try to lay the groundwork for a winning campaign—with media exposure

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