• The New York Times has a new beat on its politics team: covering “right-wing media” as a means of better informing its readers what drives many Americans’ political decision-making, since such outlets often bear “little resemblance” to mainstream coverage.

• The Times’ political editor David Halbfinger announced last week that longtime BuzzFeed News investigative reporter Ken Bensinger would “pioneer a new beat covering right-wing media as part of the democracy team on the Politics desk.”

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