Several initiatives have emerged recently to help newsrooms connect with the public, build trust and do a better job of bringing citizens’ voices into the news. But the news media have a long way to go, according to new data from Pew Research Center. Just 5% of the more than […] Read more »
Americans’ opinions of Trump are fully baked, in one chart
Everyone has an opinion of President Donald Trump — and they’re sticking to it. The President’s approval rating has remained in a narrow 10 percentage point window for his entire first nine months in office, the smallest range for new presidents in almost a half century. CONT. Ryan Struyk, CNN Read more »
Did the Clinton campaign really stop polling at the end?
An explosive allegation from prominent Democratic pollster Stan Greenberg last week is sparking a new wave of criticism and recriminations about Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The charge — that the campaign went the final three weeks of last year’s presidential election without polling the battleground states — amounts to an accusation […] Read more »
Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway sells polling company to conservative PR firm
Kellyanne Conway, the special counselor to President Trump, has sold her consulting firm to a conservative public relations firm, CRC Public Relations. CONT. Heidi Przybyla, USA Today Read more »
Daniel Yankelovich, Master of Public Opinion Research, Dies at 92
Daniel Yankelovich, the pollster, author and public opinion analyst who for a half-century mirrored the perceptions of generations of Americans about politics, consumer products, social changes and, not least, themselves, died on Friday morning at his home in the La Jolla section of San Diego. … One of the nation’s […] Read more »
The Media Has A Probability Problem
… In recent elections, the media has often overestimated the precision of polling, cherry-picked data and portrayed elections as sure things when that conclusion very much wasn’t supported by polls or other empirical evidence. … Probably the most important problem with 2016 coverage was confirmation bias — coupled with what […] Read more »