Covering Political Campaigns in the Social Media Age

This week on The Cardinal: News of Virginia, host Dutchie Jessee sits down with politics and policy reporter Elizabeth Beyer and founding editor and columnist Dwayne Yancey to talk about how covering political campaigns has changed, especially in the age of social media.With voters scrolling instead of rallying, and candidates now building their own digital megaphones, journalists face a new kind of challenge: how to cut through the noise and hold power to account when everyone has a platform.From this year’s Virginia governor’s race to the evolving ways candidates communicate — or don’t — we explore how social media has reshaped the relationship between politicians, the press and the public.