Beat the Press: A Newsmaker Dinner Conversation with Michael Calderone

Michael Calderone, a senior media reporter at Politico, joins Joe Stephens, director of the Program in Journalism, to discuss the challenges of covering the presidency in the Trump era.

At Politico, Calderone writes about the intersection of media and politics and is author of the popular and closely followed Morning Media newsletter. He previously reported on media for The Huffington Post, Yahoo News, and The New York Observer. Calderone is a popular commentator on TV and radio, and has been awarded the National Press Club’s Press Criticism Award for reporting on the 60 Minutes Benghazi scandal and coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Professor Stephens is a veteran investigative projects reporter who spent two decades at The Washington Post, and leads the Newsmaker Dinner series.

Fill a plate at the Mathey servery and bring it downstairs to the PDR to join in the conversation.

Please RSVP to journalism@princeton.edu.