presidential campaign

The Internet's Role in Campaign 2008

Stevie Converse — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 10:01:07 -0400

Full article: Pew Internet & American Life Project
Aaron Smith
Some 74 percent of Internet users -- representing 55% of the entire adult population -- went online in 2008 to get involved in the political process or to get news and information about the election.

YouTube and the 2008 Election Cycle

Stevie Converse — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 07:13:23 -0400

Start: 04/16/2009 - 09:06

End: 04/17/2009 - 09:06

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

The conference will feature two special talks: “Congressional Communication Via YouTube,” a special panel featuring three Communications Directors from Capitol Hill; and “Uploading Hope: An Inside View of Obama's HQ New Media Video Team,” a special talk by a member of the Obama Video Team.

In the Tank

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 10:42:25 -0500

Full article: Columbia Journalism Review
Douglas McCollam
During the 2008 presidential race conservative commentators talked repeatedly about what a rotten campaign John McCain ran and what a great campaign Obama ran; but in the next breath they griped about how differently the press treated the candidates, without ever seeming to make the obvious connection between the two points.

Citizenship 2.0

Lindsy Embree — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:10:12 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
Danielle Allan
Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported an important effect of the 2008 presidential campaign: For the first time, traffic at left-leaning political Web sites overtook traffic at right-leaning competitors.

How the News Media Covered Religion in the General Election

Stevie Converse — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:32:26 -0500

Full article: Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
Religion played a much more significant role in the media coverage of President-elect Barack Obama than it did in the press treatment of Republican nominee John McCain during the 2008 presidential campaign. But much of the coverage was related to false yet persistent rumors that Obama is a Muslim.

Post-Election, the Audience Drifts Away

Stevie Converse — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:03:51 -0500

Full article: Washington Post
Paul Farhi
Americans became smitten with the high drama of the presidential election, but the transition of power is proving less than sexy. And ratings for cable TV and online news Web sites have fallen since the election.

The Post-Election Narrative: A Tale of Two Women

Stevie Converse — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 10:29:50 -0500

Full article: Project for Excellence in Journalism
President-elect Barack Obama may have toured his new home with President George W. Bush, but much of last week's media coverage also focused on two women who ran losing campaigns for the Executive Branch.

Was the Press Really Strongly Biased Against McCain?

Stevie Converse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:52:21 -0500

Full article: Editor & Publisher
Greg Mitchell
It may yet turn out that major, exhaustive studies will prove that the media were grossly unfair to John McCain. Bring them on. But two major studies don't do that. They say that the press is biased -- in favor of recognizing who is winning and stating that perhaps too often.

In Election Week, Media Pivots from Race to Rahm

Stevie Converse — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:25:41 -0500

Full article: Project for Excellence in Journalism
The final week of a campaign, the presidential election utterly dominated the news agenda. Within a day after the election, the celebratory transformative post-mortems quickly gave way to coverage of the makeup and priorities of the new President, including his choice for Chief of Staff.

One-Way Media Lost the Election as Cable, Interactive Dominated

Stevie Converse — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 12:18:06 -0500

Full article: Advertising Age
Michael Learmonth
The media winners in the presidential campaign were the ones that fed the public's desire for news where and when they wanted it: 24-hour cable TV news; participatory blogs that aggregate news of a political bent; Web sites that allow users to access media on their own terms and those that allow users to communicate and organize with each other.