After compiling this year’s “guest list,” here are some of the highlights from “Reliable Sources” in 2016:
Explaining’s love-hate relationship with the media all year long… Diagnosing "Acela corridor bias," discussing the effects of racial and social anxiety, debating media bias with Trump supporters and Clinton supporters, interviewing fact-checkers and debunking Trump's falsehoods, and asking how the media can regain America's trust…
Questioning Jason Miller, Katrina Pierson, and Sean Spicer on Team Trump… and Brian Fallon on Team Clinton…
Interviewing Trump by phone when he pledged not to kick reporters out of the W.H. press briefing room…
Hosting special editions of “Reliable” about “Trump and the disconnect…” the Trump/Fox feud… the debates… the election… and “Obama and the media…”
Asking in January if the press was late to understand anger and “discontent in the country…” And returning to these issues throughout the year…
Covering how both the Clinton campaign and the Trump campaign attempted to limit media access…
Deciphering the difficulties of polling, from Iowa in January to the national polls in November…
Writing essays about Trump’s conspiracy theories, claims about a “rigged election,” campaign surrogate spin, the plague of “fake news,” and a new age of information warfare…
Including some web-only essays about “how not to interview Trump” and about voter fraud lies…
Taking the show on the road to the conventions and the debates and the Newseum…
Interviewing leaders of newsrooms like The AP, Fusion, The Washington Post, Time, Slate, The Atlantic, and The Miami Herald…
Featuring the perspectives of local newspaper editors in Tulsa, Atlanta, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa, Cleveland, Miami, and Cincinnati…
Convening a panel of international reporters to dissect Clinton and Trump coverage…
And a focus group of consumers to talk about trust in media…
Sitting down with Seth Meyers to discuss “explanatory comedy…”
Scoring the only TV interview with Janet Brown, the executive director of the debate commission, ahead of the first debate..
Sitting down with the heads of AOL, the NYT Company, iHeartMedia, YouTube, IAC, and CBS…
Contributing to live weekend-long coverage of Jason Rezaian’s release…
(Not on the show, but this still counts) Spending a day out a in roving vehicle covering one of the biggest blizzards in NYC history…
Interviewing the makers of “Making a Murderer,” and then Nancy Grace…
Sparring with Cenk Ugyur of The Young Turks…
Interviewing Gary Johnson and Jill Stein about their third-party bids for the White House…
Trying to interview Maury Povich and Connie Chung
And Skyping with Hilde Kate Lysiak, the nine-year-old editor of Orange Street News…