Joshua Gillin
May 16, 2013
2:53 pm
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 8, 2012
8:11 am
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Adam Hochberg
Nov. 8, 2012
6:10 am
As Mitt Romney visited Poland this summer, Washington Post reporter Phil Rucker shouted a question to the candidate that revealed a lot about the media’s coverage of the campaign.
“What about your gaffes?” Rucker called out, as Gov. Romney walked … Read more
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Al Tompkins
Nov. 7, 2012
2:25 pm
Elections provide journalists great lessons about the power of visual journalism, especially election nights.
When Mitt Romney delivered his concession speech, he was standing on a stage, alone, with flags and a big red, white and blue screen behind him. … Read more
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Sara Dickenson Quinn
Nov. 7, 2012
11:57 am
Images and graphics are often the things shared most by people after an event of last night’s magnitude.
Photos capture moments frozen in time.
Graphics can distill the complex.
Interactive graphics can allow people to peruse and discover at their … Read more
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Andrew Beaujon
Nov. 7, 2012
11:40 am
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After Fox called Ohio for President Obama Tuesday night, Karl Rove challenged the network's decision, leading to the unusual sight of anchor Megyn Kelly being filmed walking through Fox's corridors to interview people at the network's decision desk. I couldn't find one clip of the whole episode, but here it is in three parts:
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Craig Silverman
Nov. 7, 2012
11:11 am
The 2012 election will not be remembered for what the press got wrong.
News organizations made some mistakes on election night but quickly corrected them. That’s about as good a result as one can hope for on an evening where … Read more
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Mallary Jean Tenore
Nov. 7, 2012
10:58 am
Covering a presidential election in a swing state like Florida is all about preparing for the unknown.
Adam Smith, political editor for Poynter’s Tampa Bay Times, had planned to write three stories on Election Day: an analysis about the … Read more
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Julie Moos
Nov. 6, 2012
11:41 pm
It turns out it wasn't such a long night after all. By 11:18 p.m. -- without final numbers from Florida or Virginia -- President Obama was declared the winner, re-elected for a second term with Ohio carrying him over 270 electoral votes. NBC and Fox News called the election earliest, followed by CNN. The Associated Press called the race a bit later, around 11:38 p.m.
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Jeff Sonderman
Nov. 6, 2012
10:30 pm
News organizations are pulling out some special efforts for election night. Here's a handful of the coolest projects we've seen.
The WNYC map
"We knew that The New York Times, L.A. Times, The Chicago Tribune -- everybody would be doing the red-blue map," John Keefe, Senior Editor for Data News & Journalism Technology at WNYC, told me Tuesday night. "We thought, what can we offer that would be different?"
The result was
this map, which categorizes the vote results by the "community types" designated by the Patchwork Nation project. So at a glance you can see how communities with labels like "military bastions," "monied 'burbs," and "tractor country" are voting.
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