Tag: 2020 campaign
How news media are setting the 2020 election agenda: Chasing daily controversies, often burying policy
It’s a paradox of examining political coverage. Are news media just reporting what the political candidates are talking about? Or does political journalism really set the agenda by selecting stories […]
Pete Buttigieg is flooding Iowa and New Hampshire with Facebook ads about his climate plan
The 2020 candidates are pouring money into online political ads and Facebook seems to be the platform of choice, with the 19 current Democratic candidates spending $32 million so far […]
Fox News’ obsession with AOC crowded out 2020 candidate announcements
“AOC mocks president’s literacy.” “How AOC became the boss of the Democratic Party.” “Ocasio-Cortez claims Trump ‘hates all immigrants.’” Those are all headlines that appeared on Foxnews.com in the days […]
Illuminating the road to 2020 through media coverage, candidate tweets and Google searches
Aleszu Bajak Storybench’s editor is Aleszu Bajak, a science journalist and former Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. He is an alum of Science Friday, the founder of LatinAmericanScience.org, and […]
Women on the 2020 campaign trail are being treated more negatively by the media
Update, April 24, 2019: This project is ongoing, and we are adding more data to the original analysis as we go. See new analysis of the full text of 1,397 […]
Six ways media outlets are tracking presidential candidates for 2020
If you’re still reeling from the round-the-clock coverage of the 2016 presidential election, we have some bad news: It’s starting all over again. With the midterms past us, the stage […]