HuffPost Senior Politics Reporter Jen Bendery joined GoLocal News Editor Kate Nagle on GoLocal LIVE ahead of the panel discussion at Rhode Island College on Tuesday entitled "Journalism on the Frontlines: Covering Washington in the Age of Trump."
Writes RIC, "Washington members of the media covering the White House are beset with challenges seldom experienced in any other presidential era. To be sure, this is a digital era marked by vitriol and bombast as well as a President’s addiction to social media. For news outlets with shrinking news staffs and desperate to find ways to maintain or increase their audience, Trump’s 24-hour news presence may seem like a godsend: His unerring instinct for how to attract attention has been helpful to the bottom line of many of those in the Fourth Estate. But this is also an era marked by a growing and dangerous disconnect between voters and established news media, a situation fed by the administration's use of terms like “fake news” and “alternative facts.” Is this a passing phase brought about by the cult of presidential personality? Or, have we forever lost the trust in those who bring us the news? We bring together some the nation’s most prominent members of the Washington media to give their take from a rare, insider’s perspective."
Jill Agostino is Deputy Editor, Special Sections of the New York Times. Her career at the NYT spans over twenty years and, prior to her current position, she was day editor for the NYT’s Washington bureau, serving as the Liaison between the Times’ New York and Washington, D.C. offices. She also served as NYT assistant national news editor, daily news editor and night editor.
Panelists:
Bendery is a Senior Politics Reporter for HuffPost. She has covered the White House and Congress for HuffPost since April 2011. Prior to joining HuffPost, she reported on Congress for four years for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill Newspaper, and spent four years covering the Texas Legislature for Gallery Watch in Austin, TX. She also worked in book publishing for three years in San Francisco and was a health care policy reporter for two years in Providence, RI.
Josh Israel has been the Senior Investigative Reporter for ThinkProgress since 2012. Previously, he was a reporter and oversaw money-in-politics reporting at the Center for Public Integrity and was chief researcher for Nick Kotz’s acclaimed 2005 book, Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Changed America.
Ron Nixon is The New York Times’s Homeland Security Correspondent. He is based in the Washington bureau, where he covers border and aviation security, immigration, cybercrime and cybersecurity, transnational crime, and violent extremism. Previously at the NYT, he reported from Rwanda, Uganda, Belgium, Canada, Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is also the author of Selling Apartheid: Apartheid South Africa’s Global Propaganda War.
Ashley Parker is a White House reporter for the Washington Post and winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for her coverage of Russian Interference. She Joined The Post in 2017 after eleven years at the New York Times where she covered the 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns and Congress.
Paul Singer became Investigations Editor at WGBH in Boston and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting in March 2018. Prior to this year, he spent six years serving as the Washington correspondent and politics editor at USA Today. And before that, he designed and ran the investigations unit for Roll Call.
Related Slideshow: GoLocal Statewide Poll - FULL RESULTS, Conducted by Harvard’s Della Volpe Oct. 2018
Sponsor: GoLocal Prov
Sample: N=502 Rhode Island General Election Voters
Interviewing Period: October 5 – October 9, 2018
Directed by: John Della Volpe, Harvard University, SocialSphere, Inc.
Slideshow: responses are not in the order of the questionnaire
This question is about the total income of YOUR HOUSEHOLD for the PAST 12 MONTHS. Please include your income PLUS the income of all members living in your household (including cohabiting partners and armed forces members living at home).
What particular ethnic group or nationality - such as English, French, Italian, Irish, Latino, Jewish, African American, and so forth - do you consider yourself a part of or feel closest to?
When it comes to voting, do you consider yourself to be affiliated with the Democratic Party, the Republican Party, Moderate, or Unaffiliated with a major party?
In November, there will be a statewide general election for Governor and many other state offices. How likely is it that you will vote in this election? Will you definitely be voting, will you probably be voting, are you 50-50...
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Will ensure that we have high-quality affordable health care.
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Will make government more accountable to the people.
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Is committed to improving education in public schools.
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
Next is a series of qualities and attributes that candidates for Governor could possess. Which candidate for Governor does each attribute apply to most? [RANDOMIZED]
If the election for Governor were held today and the candidates were: [ROTATE] Democrat Gina Raimondo, Republican Allan Fung and Independent Joe Trillo, for whom would you vote?
Attorney generals in several states have begun investigating sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy, opening investigations and issuing subpoenas for documents.
Do you favor or oppose the Rhode Island Attorney General opening an investigation into the Archdiocese of Providence on issues related to possible sexual abuse of children?
If the election for the U.S. Senate were held today and the candidates were: [ROTATE] Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse and Republican Robert Flanders, for whom would you vote?
Recently, it was announced that state officials approved a fast-track regulatory review of Massachusetts based Partners HealthCare’s proposed takeover of Care New England, Rhode Island’s second-largest hospital system, and operator Women & Infants, Butler and Kent Hospitals. [RANDOMIZED]
Do you believe the quality of care for Rhode Islanders will:
Recently, it was announced that state officials approved a fast-track regulatory review of Massachusetts based Partners HealthCare’s proposed takeover of Care New England, Rhode Island’s second-largest hospital system, and operator Women & Infants, Butler and Kent Hospitals. [RANDOMIZED]
Do you believe the number of jobs available to Rhode Islanders will:
Earlier this year, legislation was filed in the General Assembly that would require that all Rhode Island public schools have a school resource officer on the premises -- if a school has over 1,200 students -- two school resource officers would need to be present.
Do you support or oppose expanding Rhode Island’s free college tuition program at the
Community College of Rhode Island to the state’s two four-year colleges so that the last two
years of tuition at Rhode Island College and URI would be free for those recent high school
graduates, who are in a solid academic standing, and on track to graduate in four years? It is estimated that the cost of the program would be $35 million.
Do you support or oppose an Educational Bill of Rights for students and parents in Rhode Island that includes:
1) The right to be taught by effective teachers.
2) The right not to be taught by teachers who, after due process evaluation, fail to meet standards established by state and local education officials.
3) The right to appropriate academic materials and resources.
4) The right to safe, clean and environmental-friendly school facilities.
5) The right to emotionally supportive schools that do not tolerate harassment, discrimination or abuse.
6) The right to attend a school where funding is based on student need with the goal of providing
access to adequate educational opportunities.
7) The right to a pathway out of a failing school.
8) The right to a fair, accurate and transparent assessment system that measures student
performance and need.
9) The right of parents to current and reliable information about their child’s progress and performance.
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