Who Else in the Press Is Hoping to Be Hired by the Obama Administration?
  • Jay Carney, editor at Time magazine, is leaving the publication to become Vice President-elect Joe Biden's director of communications

    Job offers don't come together overnight, and for obvious reasons, the hiring process and job interviews are usually confidential. But this means that now we have two examples where members of the press were "covering" the Obama campaign while at the same time angling for a job with them. Not exactly an ideal circumstance for criticism, fairness or objectivity.

    Did these reporters'/editors' superiors know they were interviewing for staff jobs? Don't they have an obligation to disclose that to their editors? And shouldn't readers know if a reporter has that potential conflict of interest?

    we don't know if this is the only member of the media who interviewed for a position with Obama or Biden, and whether anyone else is interviewing with his campaign, or other campaigns. Who else in the press has been hoping to be hired by the Obama administration?