but what it allowed me to do and what i will always love about propublica is there was not a template for the type of writing i was trying to do. not in investigative reporting, anyway. they trusted me to do it and let me do my thing. is anything i would say to editors, lead journalist do their thing and you'll be amazed at what they are able to produce. but you do not see that enough. prof. gessen: how would you describe the sort of work you did there, when you say there was not enough? ms. hannah-jones: long, lots of work. prof. gessen: excellent. when you say there was not a template, what do you mean? ms. hannah-jones: my work is not traditional investigative reporting in that way. i spent a lot of time building this historical case. if you look at my more recent work, it definitely has a point of view. i am not trying to go down the middle and say i am just laying out a dispassionate viewing of the facts. i am making an argument at this point. i think that is not the usual way this is done. but they let me. they gave me the freedom to do that. i think one, because the reporting i

i know we'll check back with the folks at propublica throughout the night. now, though, we want to step back and get some historical perspective on this election day. joining us is "newshour" regular michael beschloss. it's so good to have you back with us again. >> thank you so much, judy. >> woodruff: well, there is so much to think about on this election day after what the country has been through. is there any election, michael, you can compare this to? >> no. i spend my whole life looking for parallels, and usually i can find an implied one, but you cannot think of a campaign that's been this personal and in negative. these have been the nastiest debates. the difference is, you know, oftentimes people will say, well, didn't john adams and thomas jefferson dis each other. yes, they did, but they usually didn't do it personally and they sure didn't do it on tv. it seems to have translated into how vitriolic people are against the other candidates. has that happened before? >> not to disagree. if this was the election in american history with the biggest p

and it allowed me to do what i will always love about propublica is there was not a template for the type of writing i was trying to do, not in investigative reporting anyway. they trusted me to do it and let me do my thing. anything i would say to editors like, let journalists do their thing and you will be amazed at what they can produce, but i think you do not see that enough. prof. gessen: how would you describe the sort of work you did there, when you say there was not enough? ms. hannah-jones: long, lots of work. prof. gessen: excellent. when you say there was not a template, what do you mean? ms. hannah-jones: my work is not traditional investigative reporting in that way. building lot of time this historical case. if you look at my more recent work, it definitely has a point of view. i am not trying to go down the middle and say i am just laying out a dispassionate viewing of the facts. i am making an argument at this point. i think that is not the usual way this is done. but they let me. they gave me the freedom to do that. i think one, because the reporting is sound. even t

but what it allowed me to do and what i will always love about propublica is there was not a template for the type of writing i was trying to do. not in investigative reporting, anyway. they trusted me to do it and let me do my thing. is anything i would say to editors, lead journalist do their thing and you'll be amazed at what they are able to produce. but you do not see that enough. prof. gessen: how would you describe the sort of work you did there, when you say there was not enough? ms. hannah-jones: long, lots of work. prof. gessen: excellent. when you say there was not a template, what do you mean? ms. hannah-jones: my work is not traditional investigative reporting in that way. i spent a lot of time building this historical case. if you look at my more recent work, it definitely has a point of view. i am not trying to go down the middle and say i am just laying out a dispassionate viewing of the facts. i am making an argument at this point. i think that is not the usual way this is done. but they let me. they gave me the freedom to do that. i think one, because the reporting i

in ohio, another rust belt state that f flipped from obama trump, one w woman told propublica, she's disappointed inhe president after having voted for him. "i don't like the obama persona, his public appearance and demeanor" tracy said. "i wanted people like me to be cared about. people don't realize there's nothing without a blue collar worker." >>> michigan hasn't voted for republican for president since 1988. electoral votes have been a pretty reliaiable part of democrats' path to victory. thiseaear all that changed. as of right now the state is too close to call, donald trump holding onto a margin of 12,000 votes. cast a ballot on esday, but left the presidential li blank. nearly double the numbeber from four years ago. joined now by ale mamacgillis. author of "revenge of the forgotten class." thers been a lotot of really and very fraught conflicts and fights about the sort of genre of reporting about the, quote, white working class in the midwest. one thing i think that's important to distinguish between our core trump supporters and essentially the marnanal voters that were ne

in ohio, another rust belt state that flipped from obama to trump, one woman told propublica, she's disappointed in the president after having voted for him. "i don't like the obama persona, his public appearance and demeanor" tracy said. "i wanted people like me to be cared about. people don't realize there's nothing without a blue collar worker." the author of that report joins me next. the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. [burke] hot dog. seen it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ ♪ ♪ when you find something worth waiting for, we'll help you invest to protect it for the future. financial guidance while you're mastering life. from chase, so you can. >>> michigan hasn't voted for republican for president since 1988. in every election since its 16 electoral votes have been a pretty reliable part of democrats' path to victory. this year all that changed. as of right now the state is too close to call, donald trump

doesn't seem to be like the republican establishment had suddenly switched and his pro-putin and propublica i think will be a huge reckoning in the republican party no matter what happens, and russia will be included in that. >> i'm not sure that a russia may be is altogether a fair conversation of mr. trump or republican voters. i'm not sure you can be pro-a country that aims nuclear missiles at you. i don't think there's any question hopefully much anybody is going to vote on tuesday that russia is an adversary. i think the issue is is the nature of engagement, whether the question is, our current engagement with russia or how we can engage with it engaged with us as a result of anybody has found satisfactory. what we see his reaction to that. walking way from plutonium disposition agreements doesn't favor either side. i think looking at that is the beginning, it's a framing effect that we see long-standing agreements between two countries starting to fall apart and mutual antagonism exacerbating that. so if you so deeply anything with respect to russia it might be a bad phrase but a rece

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