ThinkProgress is an American news website. It is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action), a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. The editor-in-chief is Judd Legum, who founded ThinkProgress in 2005.
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History
ThinkProgress was founded in 2005 by Judd Legum, a lawyer, who ran the site until he left in 2007. Faiz Shakir edited the site from 2007 to 2012, when he became Nancy Pelosi's Director of New Media, and Legum became editor-in-chief. 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, and other CAP Action blogs were consolidated into the site. The site's sections included climate, economy, health, justice, LGBT, world, culture, sports, politics and features. ThinkProgress describes itself as "editorially independent" of CAP Action. As of 2017, the site's organization had returned to a less segmented presentation, and its masthead listed a staff of 42, including editors and reporters.
According to About.com, ThinkProgress "is frequently ranked amongst the top five most popular blogs on Technorati." In September 2015, the staff of ThinkProgress unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East. Previous staffers who have gone 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 then Vox; Zaid Jilani, who writes for various media; and Nico Pitney and Amanda Terkel, who joined The Huffington Post.
New York Times writers have cited ThinkProgress reports on several occasions. In 2009 ThinkProgress writer Lee Fang reported on a strategy memo from the website Tea Party Patriots advocating disrupting town hall meetings of Democratic members of Congress. The New York Times cited the report in their coverage of hostility in the health care reform debate. After the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster in 2010, ThinkProgess reported on over $2.2 million in fines levied by the Mine Safety and Health Administration against mine owner Massey Energy for more than 3,000 safety violations. The Times cited the figures in their coverage of Massey's safety record. In 2013 ThinkProgess posted a report, including an exclusive video, of Pam Simon, a staffer to Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot alongside Giffords in 2011, confronting Senator Kelly Ayotte at a constituent event regarding Ayotte's opposition to legislation to close the gun show loophole. The Times cited the video in a report on gun control activism among gun violence victims. In 2015 Times columnist Charles M. Blow, in an analysis of the political rhetoric of racial and gender inequalities, excerpted ThinkProgress research on gender in chief executive officer hiring. The same year, he 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.
A 2012 Washington Post article cited ThinkProgress research showing that Crossroads GPS failed to register as a non-profit organization in Virginia. In 2017 Fareed Zakaria, writing in a Washington Post op-ed, cited a ThinkProgress compilation of policies that candidate Donald Trump promised to implement on his first day as President of the United States.
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 the Center for American Progress.
Climate Progress
ThinkProgress's climate section, Climate Progress, was founded by climate scientist Joseph J. Romm. The blog discusses climate and energy, political news related to climate change, and responses to climate change by the media. In 2008, Time magazine named Climate Progress one of the "Top 15 Green Websites". In 2009, Thomas Friedman, in his column in The New York Times, called Climate Progress "the indispensable blog", and in 2010 Time included it in a list of the 25 "Best Blogs of 2010". In 2010, UK's The Guardian ranked Climate Progress at the top of its list of blogs in its "Top 50 Twitter climate accounts to follow".
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Accusations of bias
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. The Huffington Post reported that MoveOn.org asked the United States Department of Justice to investigate. 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." 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."
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 in their Mideast reporting. ThinkProgress responded, "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."
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