Poynter Election Handbook: A Guide to Campaign Coverage By Deborah Potter
Another election year. Another campaign to cover. And you're wondering how to make your coverage better this time around. Find answers in the Poynter Election Handbook: A Guide to Campaign Coverage. Now in an expanded third edition, the Handbook is a practical guide for reporters, editors, news directors, and producers involved in covering political campaigns. It explores newer "citizen-based" reporting techniques as well as some modified approaches to traditional coverage, including ideas on debate and forum coverage, voter guides, and reporting on campaign financing. The Poynter Election Handbook is a guide that individual news organizations can use to develop campaign coverage plans that will work for them. See a preview of contents and sample chapters at http://poynter.org/pub/Elect/EHindex.htm