Designed to help journalists find key sources for political stories quickly and easily. The Roadmap is organized state by state to help news organizations across the country find the local sources they need. Use the Roadmap.
How to Improve Television Political Coverage 2008 - Learning from the Best Practices of the Cronkite Award Winners: Watch engaging candidate profiles, unique political debates, revealing ad watch stories and eye-opening issue pieces from the 2007 Cronkite Award winners.
How to Improve Television Political Coverage 2004 - Learning from the Best Practices of the Cronkite Award Winners: This video offers real-world examples of how to produce informative and compelling political coverage. Cronkite Award-winning reporters reveal their proven methods - which can be applied in a small market or national broadcast - to tell political stories in a way that captures viewers while fulfilling journalism's crucial role in our political system. View it online. Request a free VHS tape. (60 min)
How to Improve Television Political Coverage 2000: Learning from the Best Practices of Broadcast News: Does coverage of the issues have to be boring? This videotape offers fresh ideas for conducting candidate interviews, doing compelling issue stories, producing effective ad watches, and breaking the boring barrier. Request a free VHS tape. (60 min)
Examples of Excellence: Videoclips of exemplary Campaign 2000 coverage collected from television newsrooms throughout America. Examples include issues coverage, candidate discourse, campaign finance reporting, and clever ways to explain complicated political topics. See why we chose these clips. View it online. (13 min)
How to Improve Television Political Coverage: Find out how to cover a campaign, conduct effective campaign interviews, evaluate political ads and turn out more creative political coverage.
Cronkite Award Winners Share Tips: Reliable Resources spoke with the winners of the USC Annenberg Walter Cronkite Award to find out what they do to make campaign coverage creative, innovative and insightful.
The Lear Center Local News Archive provides an unprecedented nationwide look at the campaign information Americans receive from local television news through our unique, searchable, online video archive. Search the archive.
How to Improve Television Political Coverage: A Transcript from the Walter Cronkite Award Symposium and Dinner: This book showcases coverage judged worthy of the first-ever USC Annenberg School Walter Cronkite Award. It includes commentary from Award Judges and remarks from Norman Lear, Walter Cronkite and Katharine Graham. Request a free copy.
We’ve compiled resources to help news stations and reporters organize and cover candidate debates. You’ll find information on everything from where to hold a debate to tips on how to get candidates on board. Find out more.
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