# Stephen Doig

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{{Short description|American journalist}}
{{About|the journalism professor|American football player|Steve Doig}}
{{see also|2000 United States presidential election|Bush v. Gore}}
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| image       = Steve doig.jpg
| caption     = Doig in 2010
| birth_name  = Stephen Keith Doig
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| alma_mater  = [Defense Information School](/source/Defense_Information_School)<br />([public affairs](/source/Public_administration) personnel training)<br />[Dartmouth](/source/Dartmouth_College) (political science)
| occupation  = Journalist<br />Since 1996: [Knight](/source/John_S._and_James_L._Knight_Foundation) Professor of Journalism<br /> [Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication](/source/Walter_Cronkite_School_of_Journalism_and_Mass_Communication)<br />[Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University)
| awards      = ''[The Miami Herald](/source/The_Miami_Herald)'s''<br />1993 [Pulitzer Prize for Public Service](/source/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Public_Service)
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 | branch        = [United States Army](/source/United_States_Army)
 | service_years = [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War) era, 1970–1973
 | unit          = [Defense Information School](/source/Defense_Information_School) instructor; [combat correspondent](/source/combat_correspondent), HQ USARV
 | awards        = [Bronze Star](/source/Bronze_Star) for Service
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'''Stephen K. Doig''' is an American journalist, professor of journalism at [Arizona State University](/source/Arizona_State_University), and a consultant to print and broadcast news media with regard to data analysis investigative work. Doig moved to the university in 1996 after 23 years as a newspaper journalist, 19 of them with ''[The Miami Herald](/source/The_Miami_Herald)''. As of 2010, he taught classes in precision journalism, reporting public affairs, news writing, multimedia journalism, introduction to newsroom statistics, and media research methods.

Doig was a pioneer in the use of computer-assisted data analysis by reporters. For example, he was ''Miami Herald'' research editor when [Hurricane Andrew](/source/Hurricane_Andrew) struck [South Florida](/source/South_Florida) in 1992. Analysis of property damages and local government building records showed that newer structures were more likely to have been damaged by the storm, and the team argued that easing the zoning, inspection, and building codes had caused greater storm losses, largely in a 16-page article "What Went Wrong". The newspaper won the [1993](/source/1993_Pulitzer_Prize) [Pulitzer Prize for Public Service](/source/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Public_Service) citing its coverage "that not only helped readers cope&nbsp;... but also showed how lax zoning, inspection and building codes had contributed to the destruction."<ref>[http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Public-Service "Public Service"]. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-04.</ref><ref>{{cite news|publisher = [The Oklahoman](/source/The_Oklahoman)|url = http://newsok.com/article/766152/?template=news/main|title = Access to Records Easier on Internet|first = John|last = Perry|date =October 11, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{cite report|title=(Abstract for) Pulitzer Programming: How Investigative Reporters are Using SAS |first1=Stephen K. |last1=Doig |first2=Richard |last2=O'Reilly |accessdate=October 1, 2010 |url=http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi26/p112-26.pdf |work=SUGI &ndash; Date Warehousing and Solutions &ndash; Page 1 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140907172901/http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi26/p112-26.pdf |archivedate=September 7, 2014 }}</ref>

Doig's analysis of voting patterns in Florida in led him to believe that had there been no errors in vote counting in Florida during the 2000 U.S. presidential election, [Democratic Party](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States)) candidate [Al Gore](/source/Al_Gore) would have won the state's electoral votes instead of [Republican Party](/source/Republican_Party_(United_States)) candidate, and, thereby, the ultimate winner of the U.S. presidency, [George W. Bush](/source/George_W._Bush).<ref>{{cite book|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=4G7ntxNSO14C&pg=PA149|page = 149|title = Broadcast news: writing, reporting, and producing|first = Ted|last = White|edition = Fourth|publisher = [Elsevier](/source/Elsevier)|location = [Burlington, Massachusetts](/source/Burlington%2C_Massachusetts)|isbn = 0-240-80659-X|year = 2005}}</ref>

==Early years==
Served in the United States Army, where he taught at the [Defense Information School](/source/Defense_Information_School). Also served a year a combat correspondent in [Vietnam](/source/Vietnam) during the [Vietnam War](/source/Vietnam_War).

==Reception==
In 1990 the [Committee for Skeptical Inquiry](/source/Committee_for_Skeptical_Inquiry) (CSICOP) awarded Doig the ''Responsibility in Journalism'' award for his work as a Science Editor for the [Miami Herald](/source/Miami_Herald).<ref name="DC conference 1990">{{cite journal|last1=Shore|first1=Lys Ann|title=Skepticism in the Light of Scientific Literacy|journal=Skeptical Inquirer|date=1990|volume=15|issue=1|page=8}}</ref>

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== See also ==
{{Portal |Journalism |Society}}
* [Crowd counting](/source/Crowd_counting)
* {{section link|First inauguration of Barack Obama|Crowds and general ticket holders}}
* {{section link|Restoring Honor rally|Crowd size}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
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* [http://cronkite.asu.edu/faculty/doigbio.php Steve Doig, Knight Chair in Journalism] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610091841/http://cronkite.asu.edu/faculty/doigbio.php |date=2010-06-10 }} at Arizona State University
* [http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reportsitem.aspx?id=100075 "Reporting With the Tools of Social Science: ‘We had put the social scientists on notice that journalists increasingly would be competitors in their field’"] by Stephen K. Doig &ndash; [Nieman Foundation for Journalism](/source/Nieman_Foundation_for_Journalism) at [Harvard](/source/Harvard_University)
* [http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/how-is-crowd-size-estimated--1074/ "How Is Crowd Size Estimated?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101008192855/http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/how-is-crowd-size-estimated--1074/ |date=2010-10-08 }} by Remy Melina &ndash; ''Life's Little Mysteries''

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