For many journalists and media outlets, the 2016 presidential election was a brutal and humbling wake-up call. I the wake of an outcome so many thought impossible, some media companies - including The New York Times - were open about how they had failed to understand the electorate and had failed, above all, to listen to what the electorate was saying.
The Field set out to fix that. To make sure that we were listening this time.
The result was a series of intimate, nuanced and, ultimately, prescient portraits of the people, tensions and forces that, data would later show, had determined the outcome of the election.
Example episodes:
The Specter of Political Violence
The Battle for Pennsylvania’s Working Class