Political News Reporting

This skill specializes med-news-reporter for the political beat. Read med-news-reporter first for the general 6-step workflow (type selection, material audit, fact-check, balance, ethics, literacy). This file adds political-beat-specific discipline on top.

Overview

Distilled from political-journalism curricula at NCCU 政治系、NTU 政治系、Columbia Journalism School (Politics), Medill (Politics & Policy), Sciences Po École de journalisme. Covers the four main political-news sub-types: election / legislative / policy / official-statement reporting.

IRON LAW: No Stealth Bias

Political reporting carries stance through dozens of micro-choices that
each pass a literal fact-check but together push the reader toward a
conclusion: which adjective ("controversial" / "embattled" / "popular"),
whose quote leads, who gets the last word, where the contextualizing
data sits, which framing ("crackdown" vs "enforcement"), which timeline
("after the scandal" vs "during the second term"). Every such choice
must be either deliberately neutral or its slant disclosed. The reader
is owed a piece they can read without absorbing your verdict by osmosis.