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Nicholas Fandos explains how he navigates coverage of the primary races this month and what he\u2019s watching in New York politics.<\/p>\nnew video loaded: How a New York Politics Reporter Sets Priorities<\/p>\n
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How a New York Politics Reporter Sets PrioritiesNicholas Fandos explains how he navigates coverage of the primary races this month and what he\u2019s watching in New York politics.<\/p>\n
Because there\u2019s always more races and candidates than we can cover, we try to prioritize the ones that give us a window into something bigger that\u2019s happening. I\u2019m Nick Fandos and I write about government, politics and elections in New York. We\u2019re always trying to get a whole picture of what entanglements or conflicts or priorities candidates might bring, but that can be very different for somebody who has spent a career in local government and has developed a real record over the years. Or somebody who has not been in government before, and maybe we\u2019re looking at their business career or trying to understand: What does their campaign look like? In New York City this month, we\u2019re in the middle of an unusual number of competitive congressional primaries. So, a good example of a candidate that we looked into, who had not been in office before, is Jack Schlossberg. He\u2019s the only grandson of John F. Kennedy. We, like a lot of voters, had questions about who is this guy? What would he be like as a member of Congress? Our job is not to set out with some end goal. I followed the reporting. I listened to people that I trust. I verified the information and put together a picture that would give voters the information that they needed about Schlossberg\u2019s readiness for office. As a reporter, I don\u2019t make contributions to political campaigns. I don\u2019t advocate for causes. And it may sound a little bit corny, but as a New Yorker and a journalist, I also think it\u2019s my job to report in an unbiased way to give a sense of where American politics may be going.<\/p>\n
Nicholas Fandos explains how he navigates coverage of the primary races this month and what he\u2019s watching in New York politics.<\/p>\n
By Nicholas Fandos, Jillian Eugenios, Megan DiTrolio, Santiago Garc\u00eda Mu\u00f1oz, Mike Abrams and Patrick Healy<\/p>\n
June 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: How a New York Politics Reporter Sets Priorities transcript Back transcript How a New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49189,21558,9877,9,56,63,65,64,5538,87,26534,4510],"class_list":["post-272524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-2026-midterm-elections","tag-jack-schlossberg","tag-local-government","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-nycnew-york-city","tag-politics","tag-primaries","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}