How academics can help improve media coverage of politics

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The sports site blends basic multimedia with data smarts. Can the model work for politics?

Covering the Christie scandal and its repercussions in the invisible primary

How the media wrongly treats deficit reduction as non-ideological

The never-ending cycle of presidential doom and recovery narratives

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