fbpx
Wikipedia

ThinkProgress

February 16, 2024

ThinkProgress was an American progressive news website that was active from 2005 to 2019. It was a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action), a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Founded by Judd Legum in 2005, the site's reports were regularly discussed by mainstream news outlets and peer-reviewed academic journals. ThinkProgress also hosted a climate section called Climate Progress, which was founded by Joe Romm.

ThinkProgress
Type of site
News and political blogs
Available inEnglish
Founded2005
Dissolved2019
OwnerCenter for American Progress Action Fund
EditorJudd Legum, Faiz Shakir
URLthinkprogress.org
Current statusDefunct

In 2019, after financial losses, CAP Action unsuccessfully sought a new publisher for the site.[1] No new content has been added since September 2019, rendering ThinkProgress effectively defunct.

History edit

ThinkProgress was founded in 2005 by Judd Legum, a lawyer, who ran the site until he left in 2007.[2] Faiz Shakir edited the site from 2007 until 2012,[3] when Legum returned as editor-in-chief.[2] Legum left the site again in 2018.[4] ThinkProgress described itself as "editorially independent" of the Center for American Progress (CAP) and CAP Action.[2][5] In its early years, ThinkProgress included a daily newsletter that contained a recap and analysis of major political news and the blog Wonk Room, which was published until 2011. In that year, the site was redesigned to offer sections organized by subject matter,[6] and other CAP Action blogs were consolidated into the site. The site was then divided into sections covering climate, economy, health, justice, LGBT, world, culture, sports, politics and features.[7] In 2017, the site's organization returned to a less segmented presentation.[8]

ThinkProgress had a staff of five in 2006[9] and 42 in 2017.[8] In 2015, the staff of ThinkProgress unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East.[10] Previous staffers who went on to write for other media outlets include Alyssa Rosenberg and Andrea Peterson, who joined The Washington Post; Matthew Yglesias, who moved to Slate and Vox; Zaid Jilani, who writes for The Intercept;[11] and Nico Pitney and Amanda Terkel, who joined The Huffington Post.[2] Shakir, who led the 2020 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders, now heads (together with Pitney) More Perfect Union, a labor-focused news outlet that he describes as "ThinkProgress for a digital age."[12][13]

ThinkProgress's climate section, Climate Progress, was founded by climate scientist Joseph J. Romm.[14] The section discussed climate and energy, political news related to climate change, and responses to climate change by the media.[15] In November 2016 ThinkProgress launched a "Trump Investigation Fund" crowdfunding effort.[16][17] In 2017, Michael Goldfarb, founder of the conservative newspaper The Washington Free Beacon and its parent company, the Center for American Freedom, said he modeled them on ThinkProgress and CAP.[18]

Closure edit

In mid-2019, after the site had experienced declining revenue, traffic and donations, CAP put ThinkProgress up for sale.[1] No buyer was found. A plan to make ThinkProgress the institutional blog of the Center for American Progress was abandoned, and publication on the site ended on September 5, 2019.[19][20]

Reporting edit

Impact on mainstream press edit

ThinkProgress reports drew comment from news outlets such as The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time magazine and CNN.[a] For example, Times reporter Ian Urbina, in his coverage of hostility in the health care reform debate, cited a 2009 ThinkProgress report by Lee Fang on a Tea Party Patriots strategy memo advocating disrupting town hall meetings of Democratic members of Congress.[21]

After the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in 2010, ThinkProgress reported on the safety record of mine owner Massey Energy, finding over $2.2 million in fines levied by the Mine Safety and Health Administration against Massey for more than 3,000 safety violations; Times reporter Tom Zeller Jr. cited the figures in the Times's coverage of Massey's safety record.[22] In 2013, ThinkProgress posted a video of Pam Simon, a staffer for Representative Gabby Giffords, who was shot alongside Giffords in 2011, confronting Senator Kelly Ayotte regarding Ayotte's opposition to closing the gun show loophole; the Times cited the video in a report on gun control activism among gun violence victims.[23] In a 2015 op-ed in the Times, Charles M. Blow excerpted ThinkProgress research on gender in chief executive officer hiring.[24] The same year, Blow excerpted ThinkProgress research on the effectiveness of drug screening of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients in an analysis of the political rhetoric of poverty.[25]

In 2006, The Guardian highlighted a series of reports in ThinkProgress that exposed inaccuracies in the ABC television mini-series The Path to 9/11. The network re-edited several disputed scenes.[9] In 2011 a report in The Guardian by Ewen MacAskill, Julian Borger, Jon Boone and Nicholas Watt on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan excerpted a ThinkProgress interview with Senator Barney Frank.[26] In 2016 a Guardian investigation by Jonathan Freedland of the basis of Donald Trump's claims of voter fraud in the Iowa Caucuses excerpted a ThinkProgress report that a two-year investigation by the Iowa Secretary of State found no voter impersonation.[27]

Similarly, a 2012 Washington Post article cited ThinkProgress research showing that Crossroads GPS failed to register as a nonprofit organization in Virginia.[28] ThinkProgress reported an average of one school shooting every other day in the first days of 2014; Post columnist Dana Milbank cited the research in a 2014 column on the lack of progress on gun control.[29] In 2017 Fareed Zakaria, in a Post opinion piece, cited a ThinkProgress compilation of policies that candidate Trump pledged to implement on his first day as President.[30] In 2017 Wall Street Journal columnist William Galston cited a ThinkProgress report of 52% unemployment among 16- to 64-year-olds in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore, twice the unemployment rate of the city as a whole.[31] In 2014, Time magazine, CNN and NPR picked up ThinkProgress reports on Chipotle Mexican Grill's including in their annual report a warning to investors regarding the risk of climate change on operations.[2][32]

Research and academia edit

In 2017 ThinkProgress published the disciplinary records of the New York City police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal choke hold.[33] ThinkProgress also tracked anti-Muslim and antisemitic incidents.[34][35]

Climate Progress edit

After his 2011 Climate Progress report identifying food insecurity as "the biggest impact that climate change is likely to have on most people for most of this century", the journal Nature invited Romm to write a commentary on desertification.[36][37] In a 2016 article in The New York Times, Andrew Revkin recommended Romm's assessment in Climate Progress of the prospects for the climate and the environment under newly elected President Trump.[38] Andrew Leonard in Salon, John Rennie of the Public Library of Science and Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting cited a 2010 Climate Progress report in their critiques of an online poll regarding attitudes toward climate change conducted by Scientific American magazine.[39]

Reception edit

ThinkProgress had about 100,000 visitors per day in 2006,[9] 6 million unique visitors and 14 million page views in March 2014,[2] and 8 to 10 million unique page views per month in 2017.[16] In 2017, Lifewire ranked ThinkProgress among the ten most popular news blogs on the Internet.[40] According to CAP, the site received "more than 12 million pageviews and 7.5 million unique visitors in June 2019".[1]

In 2008, Time magazine named Climate Progress one of the "Top 15 Green Websites," saying that Climate Progress "counters bad science and inane rhetoric with original analysis."[15] In 2009, Thomas Friedman, in his column in The New York Times, called Climate Progress "indispensable."[41][42] In 2010 Time included Climate Progress in a list of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010", saying Climate Progress was one of "the blogs we can't live without."[43] In 2010, UK's The Guardian included Climate Progress on its list of "Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow", saying Climate Progress was one of "the key people and organisations you should be following on Twitter if you're interested in climate change."[44] In 2015 Tim Ward wrote in HuffPost that Climate Progress "has been the best available source of climate-change news for several years."[14]

Criticism edit

ThinkProgress reports were sometimes criticized. For example, in 2010, Lee Fang wrote in ThinkProgress that the United States Chamber of Commerce funded political advertising campaigns from its general fund, which solicits funds from foreign sources.[45] FactCheck.org said that the claim that "foreign corporations are 'stealing our democracy' with secret, illegal contributions funneled through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce" had "little basis in fact. ... At least 84 foreign companies pay at least $885,000 in dues to the [Chamber of Commerce], according to ThinkProgress. Still lacking, though, is any proof that the money is being used in the chamber’s ad campaign."[46] Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times said that the article "provided no evidence that the money generated overseas had been used in United States campaigns."[47]

In 2015, Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Intercept that CAP officials pressured ThinkProgress staff into placating the Israeli government and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in their Middle East reporting, while noting that CAP had cited strategic interests for its stance: "The clear and overwhelming record of the literally hundreds of articles and policy papers from the Center for American Progress and ThinkProgress demonstrates our longstanding support both for Israel and the two-state solution to the Middle East peace process as being in the moral and national security interests of the United States."[48]

Notes edit

  1. ^ Cited to multiple sources: The New York Times,[21][22][23][24][25] The Guardian,[9][26][27] Washington Post,[28][29][30] Wall Street Journal,[31] Time and CNN.[2][32]

References edit

  1. ^ a b c Stein, Sam (July 1, 2019). "Center for American Progress Puts ThinkProgress Up for Sale". Daily Beast. Retrieved April 2, 2020. But the site, which is editorially independent from CAP, has struggled in recent years as advertising revenues have dried up and traffic has dipped. … [T]he site was facing a $3 million gulf between revenues and expenses in 2019, with $350,000 of it made up by a shortfall in ad revenue and nearly $180,000 of it coming from a drop in expected online contributions.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Beaujon, Andrew (April 7, 2014). "How ThinkProgress became 'real competition for scoops". Poynter Institute. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  3. ^ "Nancy Pelosi Hires Think Progress' Faiz Shakir as Director of New Media". The Huffington Post. May 8, 2012.
  4. ^ Dreyfuss, Emily."Judd Legum Wants to Fix News With a Newsletter", Wired, July 12, 2018
  5. ^ "About". ThinkProgress. Retrieved September 17, 2017. See also Adler, Jonathan H. (March 9, 2014). "When think tanks are in the tank". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 8, 2017. and Wemple, Erik. "Jonathan Gruber’s stature at liberal think tank/Web site: From expert to guy who's 'lying'", The Washington Post, November 13, 2014, accessed December 5, 2015
  6. ^ McDuffee, Allen (May 27, 2011). "CAP's new sites and a goodbye to Wonk Room". The Washington Post.
  7. ^ Shakir, Faiz (May 31, 2011). "Welcome To Your New ThinkProgress". ThinkProgress. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  8. ^ a b "Masthead". ThinkProgress. Retrieved September 17, 2017.
  9. ^ a b c d Pilkington, Ed (September 15, 2006). "Left builds power base in the blogosphere". The Guardian. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  10. ^ Somaiya, Ravi (September 23, 2015). "ThinkProgress to Unionize With Writers Guild of America". The New York Times. Retrieved November 6, 2015.
  11. ^ "Zaid Jilani", The Intercept, accessed November 7, 2017
  12. ^ Smith, Ben (November 7, 2021). "Why the Media Loves Labor Now". The New York Times. Retrieved November 13, 2021. More Perfect Union, a nonprofit news outlet ... quietly started in February. It is led, in part, by Faiz Shakir, the former manager of Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign, and Nico Pitney, a former top editor at The Huffington Post and NowThisNews.
  13. ^ Markay, Lachlan (March 11, 2021). "Sanders' campaign chief aiming to push Biden leftward". Axios. Retrieved November 13, 2021. 'This is ThinkProgress for a digital age', he said, with an emphasis on video and graphics that would be central 'if we were relaunching ThinkProgress in this modern environment.'
  14. ^ a b Ward, Tim (December 17, 2015). "5 Questions for Joe Romm on What Everyone Needs to Know About Climate Change". HuffPost. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  15. ^ a b Roston, Eric (April 17, 2008). . Time. Archived from the original on April 21, 2008. Retrieved November 29, 2010.
  16. ^ a b Mullen, Benjamin (June 30, 2017). "With big plans to staff up, ThinkProgress is leaving Medium behind". Poynter Institute. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  17. ^ Giaritelli, Anna (November 22, 2016). "Podesta group launching investigation of Trump". The Washington Examiner. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  18. ^ Rutenberg, Jim (February 23, 2013). "A Conservative Provocateur, Using a Blowtorch as His Pen". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  19. ^ "ThinkProgress, a Top Progressive News Site, Has Shut Down". Daily Beast. September 6, 2019. Retrieved September 6, 2019. Also: "ThinkProgress to Be Archived After Union Threatens 'Legal Options' Against CAP". Daily Beast. September 10, 2019. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  20. ^ Murphy, Heather (September 6, 2019). "ThinkProgress, the Progressive News Site, Shuts Down". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved November 7, 2021. Highlights for Mr. Legum include a piece on the Kuwait embassy's decision to move its scheduled annual celebration to the Trump Hotel after the 2016 election and a 2017 investigation into the connection between white nationalism and wealthy institutions.
  21. ^ a b Urbina, Ian (August 7, 2009). "Beyond Beltway, Health Debate Turns Hostile". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2017. "Pack the hall", said a strategy memo circulated by the Web site Tea Party Patriots that instructed, "Yell out and challenge the Rep's statements early. Get him off his prepared script and agenda", the memo continued. "Stand up and shout and sit right back down." Robert MacGuffie, a founder of the conservative Web site Right Principles, confirmed to The New York Times that the memo was legitimate.
  22. ^ a b Zeller Jr., Tom (April 6, 2010). "Coal Mine's Safety Record Under Scrutiny". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  23. ^ a b Stolberg, Sheryl Gay (April 20, 2013). "Gun Victims Vow to Press on in State Legislatures and Political Campaigns". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2017.
  24. ^ a b Blow, Charles M. (April 16, 2015). "Woe of White Men, Again?". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2017. ThinkProgress, expanding on the report, explained ... 'Women hold few of the top jobs at major companies. ... Top executives are also not racially diverse. ... But even when they reach the highest rungs, women are still paid less than their peers'
  25. ^ a b Blow, Charles M. (May 14, 2015). "The President, Fox News and the Poor". The New York Times. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  26. ^ a b MacAskill, Ewen; Borger, Julian; Boone, Jon; Watt, Nicholas (May 4, 2011). "Front: Death of Bin Laden: Killing Sparks Calls for Early Withdrawal of Troops from Afghanistan". The Guardian. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  27. ^ a b Freedland, Jonathan (October 17, 2016). "The Man Who Cried Rigged: The Problem with Trump's Election Claims". The Guardian. Retrieved September 26, 2017.
  28. ^ a b McDuffee, Allen (November 15, 2012). "Is Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS legal?". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  29. ^ a b Milbank, Dana (January 27, 2014). "After Columbia mall shooting, no closer to gun control reforms". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  30. ^ a b Zakaria, Fareed (April 27, 2017). "The education of President Trump (and us)". The Washington Post. Retrieved September 24, 2017.
  31. ^ a b Galston, William A. (May 6, 2015). "Politics & Ideas: Pittsburgh's Revival Lesson for Baltimore". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved September 25, 2017.
  32. ^ a b Winograd, David (March 4, 2014). "Climate Change Could Mean No Guac for You – At Least at Chipotle". Time. Retrieved October 8, 2017.; Isidore, Chris (March 5, 2014). "Holy Guacamole! Chipotle says don't panic". CNN. Retrieved October 8, 2017.; and "Chipotle Issues Guacamole Warning". Morning Edition. NPR. March 5, 2014. Retrieved October 8, 2017.
  33. ^ Brown, Stephen Rex; Jorgensen, Jillian; Rayman, Graham (March 21, 2017). "Board recommended discipline for Officer Daniel Pantaleo years before fatal Eric Garner chokehold: report". New York Daily News. Retrieved September 27, 2017. The documents related to Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo were sent to ThinkProgress.com by an anonymous Civilian Complaint Review Board employee, according to the website.; Baker, Al; Mueller, Benjamin (March 22, 2017). "Records Leak in Eric Garner Case Renews Debate on Police Discipline". The New York Times. Retrieved September 27, 2017.; and Paybarah, Azi (March 22, 2017). "NYPD hunting for source of leaked records, in latest twist in Garner case". Politico. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  34. ^ Beinart, Peter (February 27, 2017). "Why Is Trump Silent on Islamophobic Attacks?". The Atlantic. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  35. ^ Thompson, Ben (April 20, 2016). "As 'Islamophobia' Swells, Flight Attendants Balance Fear and Safety". The Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved September 27, 2017.
  36. ^ Romm, Joseph (October 27, 2011). "Desertification: The next dust bowl". Nature. 478 (7370): 450–451. Bibcode:2011Natur.478..450R. doi:10.1038/478450a. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 22031419.
  37. ^ Romm, Joseph (October 26, 2011). "Nature Publishes My Piece on Dust-Bowlification and the Grave Threat It Poses to Food Security". ThinkProgress. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
  38. ^ Revkin, Andrew C. (November 9, 2016). "Prospects for the Climate, and Environmentalism, Under President Trump". The New York Times. Dot Earth. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  39. ^ Leonard, Andrew (October 27, 2010). "The new barbarism: Keeping science out of politics". Salon. Retrieved October 12, 2017. Online polls are notoriously amenable to manipulation, and it seems pretty clear that climate skeptics organized in force to skew the results.; Rennie, John (October 28, 2010). "A Pitiful Poll and an Abused Article at Scientific American". Public Library of Science. Retrieved October 12, 2017.; and Naureckas, Jim (October 27, 2010). "Is Scientific American Running Away From Science on Climate Change?". Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting.
  40. ^ Moreau, Elise. "10 of the Most Popular News Blogs on the Internet", Lifewire, June 11, 2017
  41. ^ Friedman, Thomas L. (March 7, 2009). "The Inflection Is Near?". The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  42. ^ . The Real News. April 28, 2014. Archived from the original on May 4, 2014. Retrieved October 10, 2017.
  43. ^ . Time. June 28, 2010. Archived from the original on June 29, 2010. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  44. ^ Edwards, Rhiannon; Vaughan, Adam (May 11, 2010). "Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow". The Guardian. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
  45. ^ Fang, Lee. "Exclusive: Foreign-Funded 'U.S.' Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads". Center for American Progress. ThinkProgress. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  46. ^ "Foreign Money? Really?". FactCheck.org. October 11, 2010. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  47. ^ Lichtblau, Eric (October 8, 2010). "Topic of Foreign Money in U.S. Races Hits Hustings". New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
  48. ^ Greenwald, Glenn (November 5, 2015). "Leaked Emails From Pro-Clinton Group Reveal Censorship of Staff on Israel, AIPAC Pandering, Warped Militarism". The Intercept. Retrieved December 1, 2015.

External links edit

  • Official website  
  • 10 Years of ThinkProgress and the Future of Digital Media (2015 panel discussion)

February 16, 2024
thinkprogress, american, progressive, news, website, that, active, from, 2005, 2019, project, center, american, progress, action, fund, action, progressive, public, policy, research, advocacy, organization, founded, judd, legum, 2005, site, reports, were, regu. ThinkProgress was an American progressive news website that was active from 2005 to 2019 It was a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund CAP Action a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization Founded by Judd Legum in 2005 the site s reports were regularly discussed by mainstream news outlets and peer reviewed academic journals ThinkProgress also hosted a climate section called Climate Progress which was founded by Joe Romm ThinkProgressType of siteNews and political blogsAvailable inEnglishFounded2005Dissolved2019OwnerCenter for American Progress Action FundEditorJudd Legum Faiz ShakirURLthinkprogress wbr orgCurrent statusDefunctIn 2019 after financial losses CAP Action unsuccessfully sought a new publisher for the site 1 No new content has been added since September 2019 rendering ThinkProgress effectively defunct Contents 1 History 1 1 Closure 2 Reporting 2 1 Impact on mainstream press 2 2 Research and academia 2 3 Climate Progress 3 Reception 3 1 Criticism 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThinkProgress was founded in 2005 by Judd Legum a lawyer who ran the site until he left in 2007 2 Faiz Shakir edited the site from 2007 until 2012 3 when Legum returned as editor in chief 2 Legum left the site again in 2018 4 ThinkProgress described itself as editorially independent of the Center for American Progress CAP and CAP Action 2 5 In its early years ThinkProgress included a daily newsletter that contained a recap and analysis of major political news and the blog Wonk Room which was published until 2011 In that year the site was redesigned to offer sections organized by subject matter 6 and other CAP Action blogs were consolidated into the site The site was then divided into sections covering climate economy health justice LGBT world culture sports politics and features 7 In 2017 the site s organization returned to a less segmented presentation 8 ThinkProgress had a staff of five in 2006 9 and 42 in 2017 8 In 2015 the staff of ThinkProgress unionized with the Writers Guild of America East 10 Previous staffers who went on to write for other media outlets include Alyssa Rosenberg and Andrea Peterson who joined The Washington Post Matthew Yglesias who moved to Slate and Vox Zaid Jilani who writes for The Intercept 11 and Nico Pitney and Amanda Terkel who joined The Huffington Post 2 Shakir who led the 2020 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders now heads together with Pitney More Perfect Union a labor focused news outlet that he describes as ThinkProgress for a digital age 12 13 ThinkProgress s climate section Climate Progress was founded by climate scientist Joseph J Romm 14 The section discussed climate and energy political news related to climate change and responses to climate change by the media 15 In November 2016 ThinkProgress launched a Trump Investigation Fund crowdfunding effort 16 17 In 2017 Michael Goldfarb founder of the conservative newspaper The Washington Free Beacon and its parent company the Center for American Freedom said he modeled them on ThinkProgress and CAP 18 Closure edit In mid 2019 after the site had experienced declining revenue traffic and donations CAP put ThinkProgress up for sale 1 No buyer was found A plan to make ThinkProgress the institutional blog of the Center for American Progress was abandoned and publication on the site ended on September 5 2019 19 20 Reporting editImpact on mainstream press edit ThinkProgress reports drew comment from news outlets such as The New York Times The Guardian The Washington Post The Wall Street Journal Time magazine and CNN a For example Times reporter Ian Urbina in his coverage of hostility in the health care reform debate cited a 2009 ThinkProgress report by Lee Fang on a Tea Party Patriots strategy memo advocating disrupting town hall meetings of Democratic members of Congress 21 After the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in 2010 ThinkProgress reported on the safety record of mine owner Massey Energy finding over 2 2 million in fines levied by the Mine Safety and Health Administration against Massey for more than 3 000 safety violations Times reporter Tom Zeller Jr cited the figures in the Times s coverage of Massey s safety record 22 In 2013 ThinkProgress posted a video of Pam Simon a staffer for Representative Gabby Giffords who was shot alongside Giffords in 2011 confronting Senator Kelly Ayotte regarding Ayotte s opposition to closing the gun show loophole the Times cited the video in a report on gun control activism among gun violence victims 23 In a 2015 op ed in the Times Charles M Blow excerpted ThinkProgress research on gender in chief executive officer hiring 24 The same year Blow excerpted ThinkProgress research on the effectiveness of drug screening of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients in an analysis of the political rhetoric of poverty 25 In 2006 The Guardian highlighted a series of reports in ThinkProgress that exposed inaccuracies in the ABC television mini series The Path to 9 11 The network re edited several disputed scenes 9 In 2011 a report in The Guardian by Ewen MacAskill Julian Borger Jon Boone and Nicholas Watt on U S policy toward Afghanistan excerpted a ThinkProgress interview with Senator Barney Frank 26 In 2016 a Guardian investigation by Jonathan Freedland of the basis of Donald Trump s claims of voter fraud in the Iowa Caucuses excerpted a ThinkProgress report that a two year investigation by the Iowa Secretary of State found no voter impersonation 27 Similarly a 2012 Washington Post article cited ThinkProgress research showing that Crossroads GPS failed to register as a nonprofit organization in Virginia 28 ThinkProgress reported an average of one school shooting every other day in the first days of 2014 Post columnist Dana Milbank cited the research in a 2014 column on the lack of progress on gun control 29 In 2017 Fareed Zakaria in a Post opinion piece cited a ThinkProgress compilation of policies that candidate Trump pledged to implement on his first day as President 30 In 2017 Wall Street Journal columnist William Galston cited a ThinkProgress report of 52 unemployment among 16 to 64 year olds in the Sandtown Winchester neighborhood of Baltimore twice the unemployment rate of the city as a whole 31 In 2014 Time magazine CNN and NPR picked up ThinkProgress reports on Chipotle Mexican Grill s including in their annual report a warning to investors regarding the risk of climate change on operations 2 32 Research and academia edit In 2017 ThinkProgress published the disciplinary records of the New York City police officer who put Eric Garner in a fatal choke hold 33 ThinkProgress also tracked anti Muslim and antisemitic incidents 34 35 Climate Progress edit After his 2011 Climate Progress report identifying food insecurity as the biggest impact that climate change is likely to have on most people for most of this century the journal Nature invited Romm to write a commentary on desertification 36 37 In a 2016 article in The New York Times Andrew Revkin recommended Romm s assessment in Climate Progress of the prospects for the climate and the environment under newly elected President Trump 38 Andrew Leonard in Salon John Rennie of the Public Library of Science and Jim Naureckas of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting cited a 2010 Climate Progress report in their critiques of an online poll regarding attitudes toward climate change conducted by Scientific American magazine 39 Reception editThinkProgress had about 100 000 visitors per day in 2006 9 6 million unique visitors and 14 million page views in March 2014 2 and 8 to 10 million unique page views per month in 2017 16 In 2017 Lifewire ranked ThinkProgress among the ten most popular news blogs on the Internet 40 According to CAP the site received more than 12 million pageviews and 7 5 million unique visitors in June 2019 1 In 2008 Time magazine named Climate Progress one of the Top 15 Green Websites saying that Climate Progress counters bad science and inane rhetoric with original analysis 15 In 2009 Thomas Friedman in his column in The New York Times called Climate Progress indispensable 41 42 In 2010 Time included Climate Progress in a list of the 25 Best Blogs of 2010 saying Climate Progress was one of the blogs we can t live without 43 In 2010 UK s The Guardian included Climate Progress on its list of Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow saying Climate Progress was one of the key people and organisations you should be following on Twitter if you re interested in climate change 44 In 2015 Tim Ward wrote in HuffPost that Climate Progress has been the best available source of climate change news for several years 14 Criticism edit ThinkProgress reports were sometimes criticized For example in 2010 Lee Fang wrote in ThinkProgress that the United States Chamber of Commerce funded political advertising campaigns from its general fund which solicits funds from foreign sources 45 FactCheck org said that the claim that foreign corporations are stealing our democracy with secret illegal contributions funneled through the U S Chamber of Commerce had little basis in fact At least 84 foreign companies pay at least 885 000 in dues to the Chamber of Commerce according to ThinkProgress Still lacking though is any proof that the money is being used in the chamber s ad campaign 46 Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times said that the article provided no evidence that the money generated overseas had been used in United States campaigns 47 In 2015 Glenn Greenwald wrote in The Intercept that CAP officials pressured ThinkProgress staff into placating the Israeli government and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee AIPAC in their Middle East reporting while noting that CAP had cited strategic interests for its stance The clear and overwhelming record of the literally hundreds of articles and policy papers from the Center for American Progress and ThinkProgress demonstrates our longstanding support both for Israel and the two state solution to the Middle East peace process as being in the moral and national security interests of the United States 48 Notes edit Cited to multiple sources The New York Times 21 22 23 24 25 The Guardian 9 26 27 Washington Post 28 29 30 Wall Street Journal 31 Time and CNN 2 32 References edit a b c Stein Sam July 1 2019 Center for American Progress Puts ThinkProgress Up for Sale Daily Beast Retrieved April 2 2020 But the site which is editorially independent from CAP has struggled in recent years as advertising revenues have dried up and traffic has dipped T he site was facing a 3 million gulf between revenues and expenses in 2019 with 350 000 of it made up by a shortfall in ad revenue and nearly 180 000 of it coming from a drop in expected online contributions a b c d e f g Beaujon Andrew April 7 2014 How ThinkProgress became real competition for scoops Poynter Institute Retrieved October 8 2017 Nancy Pelosi Hires Think Progress Faiz Shakir as Director of New Media The Huffington Post May 8 2012 Dreyfuss Emily Judd Legum Wants to Fix News With a Newsletter Wired July 12 2018 About ThinkProgress Retrieved September 17 2017 See also Adler Jonathan H March 9 2014 When think tanks are in the tank The Washington Post Retrieved October 8 2017 and Wemple Erik Jonathan Gruber s stature at liberal think tank Web site From expert to guy who s lying The Washington Post November 13 2014 accessed December 5 2015 McDuffee Allen May 27 2011 CAP s new sites and a goodbye to Wonk Room The Washington Post Shakir Faiz May 31 2011 Welcome To Your New ThinkProgress ThinkProgress Retrieved November 6 2015 a b Masthead ThinkProgress Retrieved September 17 2017 a b c d Pilkington Ed September 15 2006 Left builds power base in the blogosphere The Guardian Retrieved September 25 2017 Somaiya Ravi September 23 2015 ThinkProgress to Unionize With Writers Guild of America The New York Times Retrieved November 6 2015 Zaid Jilani The Intercept accessed November 7 2017 Smith Ben November 7 2021 Why the Media Loves Labor Now The New York Times Retrieved November 13 2021 More Perfect Union a nonprofit news outlet quietly started in February It is led in part by Faiz Shakir the former manager of Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign and Nico Pitney a former top editor at The Huffington Post and NowThisNews Markay Lachlan March 11 2021 Sanders campaign chief aiming to push Biden leftward Axios Retrieved November 13 2021 This is ThinkProgress for a digital age he said with an emphasis on video and graphics that would be central if we were relaunching ThinkProgress in this modern environment a b Ward Tim December 17 2015 5 Questions for Joe Romm on What Everyone Needs to Know About Climate Change HuffPost Retrieved October 10 2017 a b Roston Eric April 17 2008 Green Websites Climate Progress Time Archived from the original on April 21 2008 Retrieved November 29 2010 a b Mullen Benjamin June 30 2017 With big plans to staff up ThinkProgress is leaving Medium behind Poynter Institute Retrieved October 9 2017 Giaritelli Anna November 22 2016 Podesta group launching investigation of Trump The Washington Examiner Retrieved October 9 2017 Rutenberg Jim February 23 2013 A Conservative Provocateur Using a Blowtorch as His Pen The New York Times Retrieved September 23 2017 ThinkProgress a Top Progressive News Site Has Shut Down Daily Beast September 6 2019 Retrieved September 6 2019 Also ThinkProgress to Be Archived After Union Threatens Legal Options Against CAP Daily Beast September 10 2019 Retrieved April 2 2020 Murphy Heather September 6 2019 ThinkProgress the Progressive News Site Shuts Down The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved November 7 2021 Highlights for Mr Legum include a piece on the Kuwait embassy s decision to move its scheduled annual celebration to the Trump Hotel after the 2016 election and a 2017 investigation into the connection between white nationalism and wealthy institutions a b Urbina Ian August 7 2009 Beyond Beltway Health Debate Turns Hostile The New York Times Retrieved September 23 2017 Pack the hall said a strategy memo circulated by the Web site Tea Party Patriots that instructed Yell out and challenge the Rep s statements early Get him off his prepared script and agenda the memo continued Stand up and shout and sit right back down Robert MacGuffie a founder of the conservative Web site Right Principles confirmed to The New York Times that the memo was legitimate a b Zeller Jr Tom April 6 2010 Coal Mine s Safety Record Under Scrutiny The New York Times Retrieved September 23 2017 a b Stolberg Sheryl Gay April 20 2013 Gun Victims Vow to Press on in State Legislatures and Political Campaigns The New York Times Retrieved September 23 2017 a b Blow Charles M April 16 2015 Woe of White Men Again The New York Times Retrieved September 24 2017 ThinkProgress expanding on the report explained Women hold few of the top jobs at major companies Top executives are also not racially diverse But even when they reach the highest rungs women are still paid less than their peers a b Blow Charles M May 14 2015 The President Fox News and the Poor The New York Times Retrieved September 24 2017 a b MacAskill Ewen Borger Julian Boone Jon Watt Nicholas May 4 2011 Front Death of Bin Laden Killing Sparks Calls for Early Withdrawal of Troops from Afghanistan The Guardian Retrieved September 26 2017 a b Freedland Jonathan October 17 2016 The Man Who Cried Rigged The Problem with Trump s Election Claims The Guardian Retrieved September 26 2017 a b McDuffee Allen November 15 2012 Is Karl Rove s Crossroads GPS legal The Washington Post Retrieved September 24 2017 a b Milbank Dana January 27 2014 After Columbia mall shooting no closer to gun control reforms The Washington Post Retrieved September 25 2017 a b Zakaria Fareed April 27 2017 The education of President Trump and us The Washington Post Retrieved September 24 2017 a b Galston William A May 6 2015 Politics amp Ideas Pittsburgh s Revival Lesson for Baltimore The Wall Street Journal Retrieved September 25 2017 a b Winograd David March 4 2014 Climate Change Could Mean No Guac for You At Least at Chipotle Time Retrieved October 8 2017 Isidore Chris March 5 2014 Holy Guacamole Chipotle says don t panic CNN Retrieved October 8 2017 and Chipotle Issues Guacamole Warning Morning Edition NPR March 5 2014 Retrieved October 8 2017 Brown Stephen Rex Jorgensen Jillian Rayman Graham March 21 2017 Board recommended discipline for Officer Daniel Pantaleo years before fatal Eric Garner chokehold report New York Daily News Retrieved September 27 2017 The documents related to Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo were sent to ThinkProgress com by an anonymous Civilian Complaint Review Board employee according to the website Baker Al Mueller Benjamin March 22 2017 Records Leak in Eric Garner Case Renews Debate on Police Discipline The New York Times Retrieved September 27 2017 and Paybarah Azi March 22 2017 NYPD hunting for source of leaked records in latest twist in Garner case Politico Retrieved September 27 2017 Beinart Peter February 27 2017 Why Is Trump Silent on Islamophobic Attacks The Atlantic Retrieved September 27 2017 Thompson Ben April 20 2016 As Islamophobia Swells Flight Attendants Balance Fear and Safety The Christian Science Monitor Retrieved September 27 2017 Romm Joseph October 27 2011 Desertification The next dust bowl Nature 478 7370 450 451 Bibcode 2011Natur 478 450R doi 10 1038 478450a ISSN 0028 0836 PMID 22031419 Romm Joseph October 26 2011 Nature Publishes My Piece on Dust Bowlification and the Grave Threat It Poses to Food Security ThinkProgress Retrieved October 11 2017 Revkin Andrew C November 9 2016 Prospects for the Climate and Environmentalism Under President Trump The New York Times Dot Earth Retrieved October 10 2017 Leonard Andrew October 27 2010 The new barbarism Keeping science out of politics Salon Retrieved October 12 2017 Online polls are notoriously amenable to manipulation and it seems pretty clear that climate skeptics organized in force to skew the results Rennie John October 28 2010 A Pitiful Poll and an Abused Article at Scientific American Public Library of Science Retrieved October 12 2017 and Naureckas Jim October 27 2010 Is Scientific American Running Away From Science on Climate Change Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Moreau Elise 10 of the Most Popular News Blogs on the Internet Lifewire June 11 2017 Friedman Thomas L March 7 2009 The Inflection Is Near The New York Times Retrieved October 10 2017 TRNN Debate Can Fracking Help the U S Move Away from Fossil Fuel Consumption The Real News April 28 2014 Archived from the original on May 4 2014 Retrieved October 10 2017 Best Blogs of 2010 Time June 28 2010 Archived from the original on June 29 2010 Retrieved October 12 2017 Edwards Rhiannon Vaughan Adam May 11 2010 Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow The Guardian Retrieved October 12 2017 Fang Lee Exclusive Foreign Funded U S Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads Center for American Progress ThinkProgress Retrieved August 30 2012 Foreign Money Really FactCheck org October 11 2010 Retrieved August 30 2012 Lichtblau Eric October 8 2010 Topic of Foreign Money in U S Races Hits Hustings New York Times Retrieved August 30 2012 Greenwald Glenn November 5 2015 Leaked Emails From Pro Clinton Group Reveal Censorship of Staff on Israel AIPAC Pandering Warped Militarism The Intercept Retrieved December 1 2015 External links editOfficial website nbsp 10 Years of ThinkProgress and the Future of Digital Media 2015 panel discussion Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title ThinkProgress amp oldid 1205952368, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

article

, read, download, free, free download, mp3, video, mp4, 3gp, jpg, jpeg, gif, png, picture, music, song, movie, book, game, games.