Insider
SMH’s State Political editor, Anne Davies, discusses the Herald’s coverage of this year’s State election
Story by Erik Jensen, SMH trainee
Of the eight elections Anne Davies has covered, this was not the dullest.
"It was a bit of a strange one, because it felt like the two sides never really engaged. They all just ran their own agendas each day and they didn't seem to intersect," she said.
"It wasn't more difficult [to report]; it just didn't have any sharp focus to it. Every day you'd have to decide who'd done the most interesting thing, and we often found ourselves going to look for stories off the main parties' agendas because, really, they weren't providing us with anything much to report." more
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