Updating AP style on Hillary Clinton
AP U.S. Political Editor David Scott today outlined new style guidance regarding Hillary Clinton, sending this memo to staff:
Testing new ways to survey voters
When voters go to the polls in Kentucky and Mississippi on Nov. 3, The Associated Press will be launching experiments aimed at finding more accurate and less expensive ways to survey them. With funding from the Knight Foundation, the AP has hired GfK Custom Research to identify and survey voters online, instead of conducting a traditional exit poll where precinct-based interviewers ask voters to fill out questionnaires.
‘The Next Generation Beyond Exit Polls’
In the last presidential election, more than a third of voters did not go to a polling place on Election Day but instead voted ahead of time or by mail.
AP announces political team for 2016
U.S. Political Editor David Scott announced The Associated Press’ political reporting lineup in a memo to staff today:
Election Day effort continues into Wednesday
Though all the votes have been cast in the U.S. midterm elections, the importance of uncounted ballots looms large in some tight contests as AP journalists and race callers continued today to analyze Election Day results. Highlighting the remaining tasks, AP issued an advisory to its customers in the wee hours of this morning: