By Mallary Jean Tenore Courtesy of The Poynter Institute
When Rudy Giuliani's aide, Tony Carbonetti, entered the press room, Mark Halperin turned on his video camera. Halperin, editor at large and senior political analyst for TIME magazine, carries his camera with him whenever he's reporting, he said, because there is almost always an opportunity to use multimedia reporting. He video taped Carbonetti talking about the news that had just broken about questionable expenses that Giuliani billed. Following his interview with Carbonetti, Halperin sent the raw video to TIME. Shortly after, it was uploaded to his blog, The Page.
"If you're not providing all content on all media, you're not really fulfilling your maximum potential," said Halperin, who joined journalists in covering the CNN-YouTube Republican debate in St. Petersburg, Fla., Wednesday night. He assigned letter grades to each candidate on his blog, giving the highest grade, a B+, to Mike Huckabee, and the lowest grade, a D, to Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo.
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