Students in journalism professor Gabriel Kahn's economics reporting class wrote snapshots of the Republican presidential candidates' economic platforms for a Dec. 2 Marketplace story package.
Each student in the "Follow the Money: The Art and Craft of Business and Economics Reporting" class went through the policy positions, speeches and public comments of the GOP candidates. Then they crafted a template so that it would be easy to compare one candidate to another on issues such as defense spending or tax policy. Marketplace commissioned a portrait gallery of the candidates and the package went live.
Earlier in the semester, Kahn's class wrote blog posts for Marketplace about President Barack Obama's jobs speech.
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Michele Bachmann
Herman Cain
Newt Gingrich
Jon Huntsman
Ron Paul
Rick Perry
Mitt Romney
Rick Santorum
