Media - Covering the 2020 Presidential Campaign
Covering
a presidential campaign presents
significant challenges for news organizations large
and small. These change as the
campaign progresses. In the 2020 primaries there
was a very large field of Democratic candidates. Outlets
in the early states, even small ones, have many
opportunities to cover the candidates. Large
outlets such as the networks have significant resources
and can, for example, field campaign embeds to cover the
leading candidates. All news organizations have
faced a whole new set of challenges from March 2020
onward due to the pandemic. This section presents
press releases from news organizations highlighting
features and innovations in their coverage of the
campaign.
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Covering the 2020 Presidential Campaign
CNN to
Provide Expansive Election Night in America Coverage (Oct.
29, 2020)
ABC
News Announces Special Coverage of 2020 Election
Day on Tuesday, November 3 (Oct. 28, 2020)
AP
announces 2020 general election plans (Oct. 27, 2020)
Make
NPR Your Trusted 2020 Election News Service (Oct.
27, 2020)
PBS NewHour
Announces Election 2020 Special Coverage Plans (Oct. 26,
2020)
The Washington Post to host daily, live 2020 election programming beginning Oct. 28 (Oct. 26, 2020)
FOX News
Media Unveils Industry-Leading Election Technology Across
Platforms (Oct. 21, 2020)
ABC
News town hall with former Vice President Biden
and NBC
News town hall with President
Trump (both Oct. 15, 2020)
Free
Press Action Fund sign on letter: Election 2020
coverage pledge (Oct. 8, 2020)
NBC News
Digital releases interactive polling, early voting
and voter turnout tools (Sept. 23, 2020)
ABC
News town hall with President Trump (Sept. 15, 2020)
and CNN
town hall with former Vice President Biden (Sept. 17,
2020)
Events to Help Journailsts
Prepare to Cover the Election (Sept. 2020)
convention
coverage (Aug. 2020)
Ad Age's Campaign
Trail coverage returns (Mar. 11, 2020)
Television Bureau of
Advertising: 2020 Voters Media Usage Study: South
Carolina (Feb. 26, 2020)
CNN town halls in New
Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina (Feb. 2020)
AP announces US
presidential primary coverage plans (Feb.3, 2020)
Apple News launches
special coverage of the 2020 presidential election (Feb.
3, 2020)
C-SPAN to Debut
Campaign 2020 Bus in Partnership with Mediacom (Jan. 2020)
2019
Apple News teams with ABC News for 2020
presidential election coverage (Dec. 16, 2019)
Bloomberg News
response to Mike Bloomberg's entry into the campaign (Nov.
24, 2019)
NBC News and Meet the
Press Launch Year-Long “County to County”
Project... (Nov. 18, 2019)
Primary 2020: The
Exchange Candidate Forums from NHPR (Oct. 2,
2019)
NHPR: New Podcast
Takes In-Depth Look at the New Hampshire Primary (Sept.
10, 2019)
CNN debuts new polling
standards as 2020 race heats up (July 9, 2019)
Iowa Public Radio: New
Podcast "Caucus Land" Debuts in July (May 31, 2019)
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics: 2020 Campaign Journalism Conference, April 11-12, 2019 [PDF - Agenda]
ABC News
2020 campaign producers/reporters (Mar. 5, 2019)
AP adds 2 journalists
to 2020 reporting team (Feb. 4, 2019)
CBS News announces
2020 presidential campaign digital journalists (Jan. 11,
2019)
2018
The
Des Moines Register and CNN announce
partnership to produce the Iowa Poll (Dec. 6, 2018)
Introducing
the Candidates
CNN Town Halls
town halls featuring in-studio audiences, first aired on
Jan. 28 (Harris)
WMUR-TV
"Conversation with the Candidates" 60-minute
broadcasts recorded live-to-tape before an in-studio
audience, first taped on Feb. 26 (Yang)
Center for Public Integrity 2020 Presidential Profiles
NHPR "2020 Candidate
Conversations" on "The Exchange" first on Mar. 21
(Gabbard)
Quad-City Times "Leading the Nation - Iowa 2020" forums at St. Ambrose University, first one April 28 (Swalwell)
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