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    Covering Trump in 2024

    Finding the right words this time around
    Feb 22, 2024 4 minutes
    Source: Carlos Carmonamedina for NPR Public Editor

    Ever since Donald Trump first became a political candidate back in 2015, journalists have struggled to cover him in a way that serves news consumers.

    From the moment he announced his first run for president, Trump gobbled up a lot of press attention simply by being outrageous and entertaining. The first broad critique of journalists was that the coverage of Trump was uncritical and disproportionate.

    By the 2020 election, after the start of the pandemic, analysis from this office questioned whether Trump's press briefings on the pandemic should be aired live by NPR and whether narratives of election fraud should go unchallenged.

    Now, Trump is marching toward his third Republican nomination for president, and once again the press

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