NEW YORK — The Boston Globe has been lucky the past three presidential election cycles, with Massachusetts’ then-Sen. John Kerry or former Gov. Mitt Romney in the race.
The Globe’s longtime sources and institutional memory of the candidates paid off, allowing the regional paper to be a national authority on Kerry, Democrats’ 2004 presidential nominee, and Romney, the GOP’s 2012 nominee who was also in the running in 2008. The two even helped produce enough material for a couple of election-year books. The paper won’t have a similar opportunity in 2016, given the unlikelihood that Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will run, but will again look locally to distinguish itself in a media-saturated election.
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Bloomberg Politics managing editors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann will travel throughout New Hampshire, and its reporters are already assigned to major candidates.
But while Bloomberg Politics has no immediate plans to embed a reporter in New Hampshire, Executive Editor Thomas Johnson told The Huffington Post it hopes to gain additional insight on the ground through a partnership with the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College. Bloomberg Politics, he said, will then have “over a hundred Saint Anselm student journalists who will be extra eyes and ears on the trail.”
