Andrew Beaujon
Aug. 28, 2012
9:57 am
Nobody's covering members of the media in Tampa this week like Politico reporter Patrick Gavin. He's been
tweeting "rules" for covering the convention that,
as my boss showed yesterday, most journalists at the RNC are following.
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Jeff Sonderman
Aug. 21, 2012
11:02 am
Politico reporter David Catanese got a whole face-full of blowback this week for a series of tweets defending Republican congressman and Senate candidate Todd Akin’s controversial comments about rape, pregnancy and abortion.
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Andrew Beaujon
June 22, 2012
1:59 pm
Business Insider |
The Atlantic Wire |
Jim Romenesko |
Capital New York
Michael Calderone's article about Politico, published on the
new online magazine Huffington, is available only to people who have iPads. This set off a scramble among those lucky haves to share some key points with the rest of us have-nots.
Business Insider's Brett LoGiurato
was first out of the gate with a 10:10 a.m. EDT piece highlighting some juicy bits: Executive Editor Jim VandeHei calling the news organization "a cult," for instance, and the news that Politico's traffic has been down for the first five months of the year.
Eric Randall at The Atlantic Wire (10:16 a.m. EDT) pulled out anonymous staffers complaining about Politico's supposed "star system" and a quote from an anonymous former staffer
comparing Politico's newsroom to "The Hunger Games."
Joe Pompeo at Capital New York (10:20 a.m. EDT) grabs news of Politico's
eye-popping CPM for inside-the-Beltway advertisers and notes that the news org considered doing a Sunday morning show hosted by Mark Halperin.
Jim Romenesko (10:53 EDT)
digs out speculation that VandeHei and Editor in Chief John Harris "may not stick around a few years from now" and that "Politico editors have done away with the traditional going-away cake in the newsroom" due to so many people leaving.
And I'll add this killer quote from VandeHei, who says he gets "weary" of comparisons to The New York Times and The Huffington Post, and then goes on to rib HuffPo a little:
Right, you guys have about forty sub-channels, you're in different countries, you're covering sports, you have pictures and girls and all this stuff that generates a lot of traffic. We do politics. That's what we do. We do policy. That's what we do.
Related: 96% renewal rate for Politico Pro (Adweek) |
AOL doubles down on Web-to-magazine model with launch of ‘Huffington’ for iPad (Poynter)
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Andrew Beaujon
June 22, 2012
8:04 am
Politico |
Breitbart
Politico has suspended its White House correspondent, Joe Williams, for remarks he made on Martin Bashir's MSNBC show Thursday. Williams' "comment about Governor Romney earlier today on MSNBC fell short of our standards for fairness and judgment in an especially unfortunate way," Politico editors John Harris and Jim VandeHei wrote in a memo to staff. The remarks, Politico notes (though for some reason doesn't link), were highlighted
by John Nolte on Breitbart.
Nolte also cited Williams' tweets joking about Romney's wealth and the
infamous "Seamus incident," among others. Williams has
protected his Twitter account, so I don't know if other candidates appealed to his sense of humor. The Washington Post's Erik Wemple writes that in May, Politico's leadership asked "
that Williams cool it with the opinionated outbursts."
Here's what Williams said on Bashir's show:
"Romney is very, very comfortable, it seems, with people who are like him. That's one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and awkward in town hall settings, why he can't relate to people other than that. But when he comes on 'Fox and Friends,' they're like him. They're white folks who are very much relaxed in their own company."
Here's the clip.
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Craig Silverman
May 3, 2012
5:23 pm
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Craig Silverman
May 3, 2012
9:34 am
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Jeff Sonderman
Apr. 30, 2012
12:15 pm
comScore
New research from comScore shows that "while political blogs and sites may attract a good amount of visitors from across party lines, they are still more likely to regularly engage visitors who share the same views." Among the sites studied, Politico has the most balanced audience with 29 percent of readers identified as Democrats and the same percentage identified as Republicans. Daily Kos has the highest percentage of Independents, 46 percent of their readers. The political affiliation is based on voter registration.
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- Political news sites draw visitors from diverse political leanings. (comScore chart)
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Steve Myers
Jan. 17, 2012
2:08 pm
Politico's new Manhattan distribution plan includes delivery to about 900 people: "financial executives, media personnel, both broadcast and print, as well as select personnel in Madison Avenue advertising agencies," according to Chief Operating Officer Kim Kingsley. Another 800 will be dropped at those locations for other staff and visitors. Among the news outlets that will receive copies:
- ABC News
- CBS News
- CBS Radio Network
- NBC News
- MSNBC
- CNN
- Fox News Channel
- Fox News Radio
- Thomson Reuters
- The New York Times
- The Associated Press
- ProPublica
- The Daily News
And 2,400 copies will be available at 24 boxes around Manhattan, near media headquarters, financial institutions and subway stations.
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Steve Myers
Jan. 17, 2012
10:55 am
Politico | techPresident | ReadWriteWeb
Based on data
provided exclusively by Facebook through a new partnership, Politico reports that attacks on Mitt Romney's time with Bain Capital "
may be affecting his standing, at least among Facebook users. Since his New Hampshire primary win, the proportion of negative comments about him on Facebook has steadily increased, more so than at any time over the past month, according to the Facebook data."
But
several researchers question the value of doing "sentiment analysis" on Facebook postings, noting that the science is young and it's hard to discern what people mean in quick, casual postings often infused with irony:
Here's the issue: Counting the number of times a candidate's name is mentioned on social media and noting what words appear alongside those mentions can illuminate broad trends. You can report that "more people talked about Candidate X today" and "Y percent of that group used word ZZZZ in their comment." But you can't make any kind of meaningful judgment about what those people intended by that usage without asking them.
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