The study identified what “triggered” something to become a story\u2014was it a campaign event? Newsroom initiative? An accusation by a candidate? Or something from outside the campaign? <\/p>\n\n
The answer is journalists, for the most part, decide what is news in campaigns. More than half of all stories, 56%, were initiated by journalists deciding to pursue a certain subject. For newspapers, four-in-ten of these pieces were editorial and op-ed columns, but the bulk of it was still news coverage. <\/p>\n\n
Candidates and their campaigns succeeded in triggering a little more than a third (37%) of the stories. <\/p>\n\n
These numbers, incidentally, are virtually identical to what we found in the primaries.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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