Mediagazer: Washington Post publishes raw materials of its reporting for Trump biography, including transcripts of 20 hours of interviews (Joshua Benton/Nieman Lab)

10:10 AM ET, August 31, 2016

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Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:

Washington Post publishes raw materials of its reporting for Trump biography, including transcripts of 20 hours of interviews — The Washington Post recently published a new biography of Donald Trump, for which the Republican nominee sat for more than 20 hours of interviews. (Still, Trump didn't care for it much.)

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