Wednesday, Oct 7, 2020
Veteran AP reporter Darlene Superville will appear in virtual event open to the public
About three weeks ahead of Election Day, Rider University will host Darlene Superville, a veteran White House reporter for The Associated Press, for a conversation about covering the White House.
“Covering the White House: An Evening with Veteran AP Reporter Darlene Superville” takes place Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. The virtual event is free and open to the public but registration is required by visiting www.rider.edu/events/covering-white-house.
Superville has been part of a team of reporters providing coverage of the White House for AP newspaper, broadcast and online members across the U.S. and around the world since 2009, when Barack Obama became the nation’s first Black president. She remained on the beat through the 2016 presidential election and the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Before the White House assignment, Superville was a supervisor on the AP’s national political desk during the 2008 presidential election. She also performed that role during the 2012, 2004 and 2000 election cycles. Her portfolio on the White House beat included coverage of first ladies Michelle Obama and Melania Trump.
"In an election season like no other, we're grateful for the opportunity to learn from a reporter who has covered multiple administrations, including the Trump administration up close and personal,” says Dr. Myra Gutin, a professor in Rider's Department of Communication, Journalism, and Media and the moderator for Superville's talk.
In addition to being a public event, Superville's appearance is part of Gutin’s course "The Making of the President 2020." Gutin has been teaching the course every four years since 1988. It examines the current presidential campaign specifically through the role of communication in shaping, maintaining and understanding the political campaign process. The class will be featured in an upcoming segment on CSPAN.
Superville has also covered Congress and spent several years on an enterprise writing team, in addition to other assignments. A native New Yorker, she received a bachelor’s in journalism from New York University and began her journalism career as an AP intern in Newark, N.J., before being hired full time. For about three years in the early 1990s, she lived next door to what then was Rider College in Lawrenceville, N.J., when she was assigned to cover the New Jersey Statehouse in Trenton.
To register for “Covering the White House: An Evening with Veteran AP Reporter Darlene Superville,” please visit www.rider.edu/events/covering-white-house.
