Tag: krystina alarcon carroll

“So on an election night, the election is the [sport]: who’s winning and why? How did we get to this point, or who said what about whom before we got to this point?”

Don’t get me wrong: I’ve used polling in my reporting and columns, so I completely understand the rare need for this data. Here is how real news organizations should, and should not, use it in their reporting.

“The trust of your audience is crucial not only to long-term success but to being a long-term part of the community and a long-term part of their habits, so that when things happen, they go to the place they trust. And we want to be the place they trust the most.”

""So when you try to understand the context of where we are today by understanding where we've been in the past, I think it makes it easier for many people to realize that, whatever you feel about the current political environment, this too is going to pass."

"What I found was when I started doing really good hooks and started doing really interesting stories and started promising great video, then people started really getting what I was laying down.”

"I'm able, with a lot clearer focus, to call out the nonsense, the lies, the false promises, and all of the showmanship and theater that is in politics. I saw it firsthand."

Jokes aside, we need to take a serious look at reporting on AI during election season.

“Thank God that I found it. I know that I have a battle to go through [but I am going to] use it to help others.”

"We've done so many fun videos with him. And he just had such great comedic chops, but at the same time, so humble. And he was a big deal who didn't seem to know he was a big deal. And I think that made him a bigger deal, because he was just so unaware of how loved he was."

"The audience is brutally honest with you."