Political Reporting in the Trump Era
Saturday, Jan. 18
4 p.m.
Advance Media New York
220 S. Warren St. Syracuse
Jennifer Jacobs
Bloomberg News
Amanda Golden
NBC News
Jeff Stein
The Washington Post
Jennifer Jacobs, who grew up in Iowa, worked as a general assignment reporter at The Post-Standard in Syracuse from 1999 to 2004. She covered the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential campaigns in Iowa for The Des Moines Register, then headed to D.C. to report on the Trump campaign in spring 2016 for Bloomberg News. She’s part of a team that regularly breaks news on the inside story on the White House. Her sons, who both attended kindergarten in Syracuse, are now an Air Force airman and an architect.
Amanda Golden is an NBC News 2020 campaign embed reporter since May 2019. She has been based in New Hampshire since the summer covering all of the Democratic presidential candidates, as well as traveling elsewhere throughout the U.S. Previously Golden worked for CNN in Washington, D.C. as an associate producer, covering politics and working for The Lead with Jake Tapper. She started her professional career with NBC, first in the Page Program, and then as a desk assistant at NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt in New York. Golden graduated cum laude from Colgate University, with honors in political science. She is originally from San Francisco.
Jeff Stein covers policy for The Washington Post with a focus on economics. He served as editor of the Ithaca Voice, a local news non-profit, which he founded in 2014. He has also worked as a reporter at The Post-Standard in Syracuse and for Vox.
The Syracuse Press Club will hold a professional development panel on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2020, called “Political Reporting in the Trump Era.” Syracuse University professor Joel Kaplan, Associate Dean for Professional Graduate Studies at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications will moderate a panel of three national political reporters to discuss how they cover the candidates and major issues in the 2020 election.
We’re interested in the challenges they face and what goes on behind the scenes covering 2020 candidates and issues of national interest. How do they decide what to report on and develop sources on that beat? What has changed about how they do their job? What can local journalists do to enhance their work? The panel will a Q&A session at the end. Refreshments will be served.