Electronic Media & Politics

05/11/2016

By making content just for Apple News, The Washington Post is hoping to offer a doorway to its wider coverage

http://www.poynter.org/2016/by-making-content-just-for-apple-news-the-washington-post-is-hoping-to-offer-a-doorway-to-its-wider-coverage/410985/

While covering February’s Iowa Caucuses on Apple News, The Washington Post focused on explanatory journalism, telling users what the returns meant and what was coming up next. Given the numbe…

05/11/2016

The Data Behind Trump’s Twitter Takeover
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-2016-twitter-takeover-213861

Want to know how became the force it is? We crunched the numbers.

05/11/2016

GOP unfriends Facebook
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/05/gop-unfriends-facebook-liberals-223030

Washington's leading Republicans have found a new target in their fight against perceived liberal bias — Facebook.

04/30/2016

What President Obama and his staff still don’t get about ‘new’ media
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/04/29/what-president-obama-and-his-staff-still-dont-get-about-new-media/?tid=sm_tw

The press has always hovered around 'shiny objects.'

04/30/2016

Who Might (or Might Not) Be Donald Trump’s Running Mate if He’s the Nominee?
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/01/us/politics/donald-trump-running-mate.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

Here are some names – according to Republican strategists, advisers and allies of potential picks, and some of the contenders themselves – and how they may be leaning.

04/30/2016

Insults and Ads: How Gender Hurts Trump but Doesn’t Lift Clinton
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/upshot/insults-and-ads-how-gender-hurts-trump-but-doesnt-lift-clinton.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

Research comparing two campaign ads, both on the theme of women, finds one far more effective at stirring up emotion and changing views of the candidates.

04/30/2016

Obama Puts His Weight Behind Smart-Gun Technology
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/us/politics/obama-puts-his-weight-behind-smart-gun-technology.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur

An initiative to spur development of smart guns is intended to confront fi****ms violence amid opposition to broader gun control measures.

04/30/2016

THE WOMAN’S CARD
Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Trump’s opening gambit against Clinton, plus Cruz’s last stand.
http://www.newyorker.com/podcast/political-scene/the-womans-card

Evan Osnos joins Dorothy Wickenden to discuss Trump’s opening gambit against Clinton, plus Cruz’s last stand.

04/30/2016

10 demographic trends that are shaping the U.S. and the world
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/03/31/10-demographic-trends-that-are-shaping-the-u-s-and-the-world/?utm_content=buffer4aa70&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

We gathered key facts for this year’s Population Association of America (PAA) meeting.

04/24/2016

Sunday TV Talk Shows Overwhelmingly White & Male

http://www.newsweek.com/closed-set-sunday-tv-talk-shows-white-male-451776

Media Matters study also finds that all the networks' guests tilt right on the five morning shows.

04/24/2016

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/05/02/clinton-sanders-and-the-money-question?mbid=social_twitter

Bernie built a movement railing against the corruption of the political system. What does that mean for Hillary?

04/16/2016

Angela Hart discusses "Last Week Tonight" & Donald Trump.