Hillary Clinton Addresses a Rare Audience: Journalists

After more than 200 days without holding a formal news conference, Hillary Clinton took her most extensive questions from journalists in months — and it wasn’t so bad after all. Before taking questions, Clinton delivered a 15-minute address focused mostly on how her plans to improve the economy would especially benefit blacks and Latinos. She even had some words of encouragement for the Fourth Estate: “We need you to keep holding leaders and candidates accountable,” Mrs. Clinton told the hundreds of journalists attending the five-day conference of the National Association of Black Journalists and the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. Clinton said she took “seriously” the problems she has had winning voters’ trust. She clarified recent remarks about the F.B.I. investigation into her private email server. And she explained that the economic frustration driving many of Donald J. Trump’s supporters should be taken as seriously as his “bigotry” that appeals to some.