Coverage of the Democratic and Republican national conventions, reported by Steve Myers
ST. PAUL — There is no Arabic word for “maverick.”
When you work for Al Jazeera, that alone makes it kind of tough to report on John McCain’s presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention. The network, said Abderrahim Foukara, the… Read more
Scott Bateman is covering the Republican National Convention for Salon.com, producing a style of commentary more “Daily Show” than op-ed page.
Bateman has been interviewing delegates, protesters and others this week in St. Paul and using those recordings… Read more
Journalists working the political conventions barely have time to eat, much less read and view one another’s notable work. Let’s make it easier.
If you are proud of the work you have done at the Republican National Convention, click… Read more
Thirty-six hours after Sen. Barack Obama finished his speech at Invesco Field at Mile High Stadium, the Rocky Mountain News and MediaStorm unveiled a 20-minute documentary about the convention and Obama’s nomination on the Read more
DENVER – Rick Dunham went to the Democratic National Convention planning to report and write stories, blog, photograph and Twitter. His goal was to use all those tools to pack the Houston Chronicle‘s Washington, D.C., politics blog,
DENVER — This may be the year of news partnerships at the political conventions, with financial pressures and the need for so much content in so many forms. An interesting partnership is signaled at the top of one of the… Read more
DENVER — A political convention, I now can say, is an exciting, enormous affair, with all sorts of things to write about. The trouble is, you miss stuff while you’re huddled over your laptop checking to see if you got… Read more
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DENVER — The Democrats chose Colorado for their convention in part to make a play for western states. Those states are home to the greatest number of Native Americans in the country, and a small Native American news… Read more
DENVER — The Democratic National Convention Committee issued credentials to 124 bloggers this year — a record number, but still just a fraction of the estimated 10,000 or so media camped out in four enormous tents in the
DENVER — As more than 10,000 news media representatives converge here for the Democratic National Convention, financial pressures have forced companies to scale back, team up and load up online. Blogging is not optional — and may be done from… Read more