{"id":880179,"date":"2026-06-20T09:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/880179\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T09:05:15","slug":"how-a-new-york-politics-reporter-sets-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/880179\/","title":{"rendered":"How a New York Politics Reporter Sets Priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"

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How a New York Politics Reporter Sets PrioritiesNicholas Fandos explains how he navigates coverage of the primary races this month and what he\u2019s watching in New York politics.<\/p>\n

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Because there\u2019s always more races and candidates than we can cover, we try to prioritize the ones that give us a window into something bigger that\u2019s happening. I\u2019m Nick Fandos and I write about government, politics and elections in New York. We\u2019re always trying to get a whole picture of what entanglements or conflicts or priorities candidates might bring, but that can be very different for somebody who has spent a career in local government and has developed a real record over the years. Or somebody who has not been in government before, and maybe we\u2019re looking at their business career or trying to understand: What does their campaign look like? In New York City this month, we\u2019re in the middle of an unusual number of competitive congressional primaries. So, a good example of a candidate that we looked into, who had not been in office before, is Jack Schlossberg. He\u2019s the only grandson of John F. Kennedy. We, like a lot of voters, had questions about who is this guy? What would he be like as a member of Congress? Our job is not to set out with some end goal. I followed the reporting. I listened to people that I trust. I verified the information and put together a picture that would give voters the information that they needed about Schlossberg\u2019s readiness for office. As a reporter, I don\u2019t make contributions to political campaigns. I don\u2019t advocate for causes. And it may sound a little bit corny, but as a New Yorker and a journalist, I also think it\u2019s my job to report in an unbiased way to give a sense of where American politics may be going.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n

Nicholas Fandos explains how he navigates coverage of the primary races this month and what he\u2019s watching in New York politics.<\/p>\n

By Nicholas Fandos, Jillian Eugenios, Megan DiTrolio, Santiago Garc\u00eda Mu\u00f1oz, Mike Abrams and Patrick Healy<\/p>\n

June 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: How a New York Politics Reporter Sets Priorities transcript Back transcript How a New York…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":880180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[241332,5229,59162,2650,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,88201,80,5373,67,586,132,5230,68,11036,2969],"class_list":["post-880179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-2026-midterm-elections","tag-america","tag-jack-schlossberg","tag-local-government","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nycnew-york-city","tag-politics","tag-primaries","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-us-politics","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116781641123661764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}