Impact on mainstream press 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. 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. 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
Timess coverage of Massey's safety record. 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. In a 2015 op-ed in the
Times,
Charles M. Blow excerpted
ThinkProgress research on gender in
chief executive officer hiring. 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. 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. 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. 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. Similarly, a 2012
Washington Post article cited
ThinkProgress research showing that
Crossroads GPS failed to register as a nonprofit organization in
Virginia.
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. 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. 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. 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.
Research and academia In 2017
ThinkProgress published the disciplinary records of the New York City police officer who put
Eric Garner in a
fatal choke hold.
ThinkProgress also tracked
anti-Muslim and
antisemitic incidents.
Climate Progress 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. 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.
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. ==Reception==