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American progressive news website

ThinkProgress Type of site News and political blogs Available in English Founded 2005 Dissolved 2019 Owner Center for American Progress Action Fund Editor Judd Legum, Faiz Shakir URL thinkprogress.org Current status Defunct

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***ThinkProgress*** was an American [progressive](/source/Progressivism_in_the_United_States) news website that was active from 2005 to 2019. It was a project of the [Center for American Progress Action Fund](/source/Center_for_American_Progress#Center_for_American_Progress_Action_Fund) (CAP Action), a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. Founded by [Judd Legum](/source/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](/source/Joe_Romm).

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

*ThinkProgress* was founded in 2005 by [Judd Legum](/source/Judd_Legum), a lawyer, who ran the site until he left in 2007.[2] [Faiz Shakir](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Center_for_American_Progress#Center_for_American_Progress_Action_Fund) blogs were consolidated into the site. The site was then divided into sections covering climate, economy, health, justice, [LGBT](/source/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](/source/Writers_Guild_of_America%2C_East).[10] Previous staffers who went on to write for other media outlets include Alyssa Rosenberg and Andrea Peterson, who joined *[The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post)*; [Matthew Yglesias](/source/Matthew_Yglesias), who moved to *[Slate](/source/Slate_(magazine))* and [Vox](/source/Vox_(website)); Zaid Jilani, who writes for *[The Intercept](/source/The_Intercept)*;[11] and [Nico Pitney](/source/Nico_Pitney) and Amanda Terkel, who joined *[The Huffington Post](/source/The_Huffington_Post)*.[2] Shakir, who led the [2020 presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders](/source/Bernie_Sanders_2020_presidential_campaign), later headed (together with Pitney) [More Perfect Union](/source/More_Perfect_Union_(media_organization)), a [labor-focused](/source/Labour_movement) news outlet that he described as "*ThinkProgress* for a digital age."[12][13]

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

### Closure

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

### Impact on mainstream press

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

After the [Upper Big Branch Mine disaster](/source/Upper_Big_Branch_Mine_disaster) in 2010, *ThinkProgress* reported on the safety record of mine owner [Massey Energy](/source/Massey_Energy), finding over $2.2 million in fines levied by the [Mine Safety and Health Administration](/source/Mine_Safety_and_Health_Administration) against Massey for more than 3,000 safety violations; *Times* reporter [Tom Zeller Jr.](/source/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](/source/Gabby_Giffords), who was shot alongside Giffords in 2011, confronting Senator [Kelly Ayotte](/source/Kelly_Ayotte) regarding Ayotte's opposition to closing the [gun show loophole](/source/Gun_show_loophole); the *Times* cited the video in a report on [gun control](/source/Gun_control) activism among gun violence victims.[23] In a 2015 op-ed in the *Times*, [Charles M. Blow](/source/Charles_M._Blow) excerpted *ThinkProgress* research on gender in [chief executive officer](/source/Chief_executive_officer) hiring.[24] The same year, Blow excerpted *ThinkProgress* research on the effectiveness of drug screening of [Temporary Assistance for Needy Families](/source/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](/source/American_Broadcasting_Company) television mini-series *[The Path to 9/11](/source/The_Path_to_9%2F11)*. The network re-edited several disputed scenes.[9] In 2011 a report in *The Guardian* by [Ewen MacAskill](/source/Ewen_MacAskill), [Julian Borger](/source/Julian_Borger), Jon Boone and [Nicholas Watt](/source/Nicholas_Watt) on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan excerpted a *ThinkProgress* interview with Senator [Barney Frank](/source/Barney_Frank).[26] In 2016 a *Guardian* investigation by [Jonathan Freedland](/source/Jonathan_Freedland) of the basis of [Donald Trump](/source/Donald_Trump)'s claims of [voter fraud](/source/Electoral_fraud) in the [Iowa Caucuses](/source/Iowa_Caucuses) excerpted a *ThinkProgress* report that a two-year investigation by the Iowa Secretary of State found no [voter impersonation](/source/Voter_impersonation_(United_States)).[27]

Similarly, a 2012 *Washington Post* article cited *ThinkProgress* research showing that [Crossroads GPS](/source/Crossroads_GPS) failed to register as a nonprofit organization in [Virginia](/source/Virginia).[28] *ThinkProgress* reported an average of one [school shooting](/source/School_shooting) every other day in the first days of 2014; *Post* columnist [Dana Milbank](/source/Dana_Milbank) cited the research in a 2014 column on the lack of progress on gun control.[29] In 2017 [Fareed Zakaria](/source/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](/source/William_Galston) cited a *ThinkProgress* report of 52% unemployment among 16- to 64-year-olds in the [Sandtown-Winchester](/source/Sandtown-Winchester) neighborhood of [Baltimore](/source/Baltimore), twice the unemployment rate of the city as a whole.[31] In 2014, *Time* magazine, CNN and [NPR](/source/NPR) picked up *ThinkProgress* reports on [Chipotle Mexican Grill](/source/Chipotle_Mexican_Grill)'s including in their annual report a warning to investors regarding the risk of [climate change](/source/Climate_change) on operations.[2][32]

### Research and academia

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

### *Climate Progress*

After his 2011 *Climate Progress* report identifying [food insecurity](/source/Food_security) as "the biggest impact that climate change is likely to have on most people for most of this century", the journal *[Nature](/source/Nature_(journal))* invited Romm to write a commentary on [desertification](/source/Desertification).[36][37] In a 2016 article in *The New York Times*, [Andrew Revkin](/source/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](/source/Andrew_Leonard) in *[Salon](/source/Salon_(website))*, [John Rennie](/source/John_Rennie_(editor)) of the [Public Library of Science](/source/PLOS) and [Jim Naureckas](/source/Jim_Naureckas) of [Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting](/source/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](/source/Scientific_American)* magazine.[39]

## Reception

*ThinkProgress* had about 100,000 visitors per day in 2006,[9] 6 million [unique visitors](/source/Unique_user#Unique_visitor) and 14 million [page views](/source/Page_view) in March 2014,[2] and 8 to 10 million unique page views per month in 2017.[16] In 2017, [Lifewire](/source/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](/source/Time_(magazine))* 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/HuffPost)* that *Climate Progress* "has been the best available source of climate-change news for several years."[14]

### Criticism

In 2010, Lee Fang wrote in *ThinkProgress* that the [United States Chamber of Commerce](/source/United_States_Chamber_of_Commerce) funded political advertising campaigns from its general fund, which solicits funds from foreign sources.[45] [FactCheck.org](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Glenn_Greenwald) wrote in *[The Intercept](/source/The_Intercept)* that CAP officials pressured *ThinkProgress* staff into placating the Israeli government and the [American Israel Public Affairs Committee](/source/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

1. **[^](#cite_ref-33)** 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]

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