http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-campaign-reporters-media-116834.html#ixzz3Wv57h7dYHillary Clinton team woos reporters
Home meals and more outreach follow a long spate of critical coverage.
By Dylan Byers
4/10/15 10:24 AM EDT
Updated 4/10/15 12:31 PM EDT
On Thursday night, Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff John Podesta held a private dinner with campaign reporters at his Washington home, where he served his signature pasta puttanesca, as well as a pasta with a walnut sauce, POLITICO has learned. On Friday night, Clinton strategist Joel Benenson will hold a similar dinner with reporters, correspondents and even some television anchors at his apartment in New York.
The dinners are part of a larger Clinton-team effort to build a rapport with the men and women who will spend the next 18 months covering Clinton’s bid for the White House. That effort is seen as a necessity for a candidate who, in the early months of 2015, has had no safe harbor in the media. To date, The New York Times alone has published more than 40 articles related to Clinton’s use of a private email account while secretary of state, and many other news outlets, including POLITICO, have come forward with revelations of their own. Meanwhile, right-wing media outlets criticize her daily and left-wing outlets are unabashed in their desire for a more liberal alternative.
Read more:
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/hillary-clinton-campaign-reporters-media-116834.html#ixzz3X0ZXDRVQ
