{"id":284,"date":"2016-11-08T20:58:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T01:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cusjc.ca\/americavotes2016\/?p=284"},"modified":"2016-11-08T21:05:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T02:05:07","slug":"election-coverage-anything-easy-local-reporter-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cusjc.ca\/americavotes2016\/2016\/11\/08\/election-coverage-anything-easy-local-reporter-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Election coverage has been anything but easy, local reporter says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Shauna McGinn and Lauren Sproule<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Nov. 8, 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CANTON, N.Y. \u2013 Caitlin Landers felt nervous as she waited outside a polling station today, camera equipment in hand. The local TV journalist, who works for Time Warner Cable News, said she feels the way most people do about this election: Uneasy, given the fact that it\u2019s been so divisive.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the journalist\u2019s job to move past nerves and get the story out, and Landers described some of the challenges involved in reporting on this turbulent election.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/292167751&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>She said as a local reporter covering Ogdensburg, Potsdam, and Canton together, her focus is on important local races in which the results will directly affect the people she works with. Alongside this, she said she thinks it\u2019s important that American journalists turn outward and remember the adage \u201cthe whole world is watching\u201d \u2013 because tonight, those words have never rung so true.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Shauna McGinn and Lauren Sproule Nov. 8, 2016 CANTON, N.Y. \u2013&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[58,61,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lauren-sproule","category-shauna-mcginn","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Election coverage has been anything but easy, local reporter says - 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