Romenesko

Los Angeles Times
Their spouses work for one of the candidates. Should the potential conflict of interest merely be disclosed to readers or viewers? asks James Rainey. Or should the journalists be shifted to new assignments to lessen the appearance their motives might be divided? The journalists -- Matt Cooper, Ron Brownstein, Campbell Brown, and Nina Easton -- all answered Rainey's questions, "if sometimes unenthusiastically, about the collision of their personal and political lives."