Month: January 2016
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New NYT: The obstacles to a Bloomberg win
From my new Upshot column: The dream of a centrist third-party presidential candidate will never die. Michael Bloomberg, the media billionaire and former New York City mayor, is once again considering running for president, but how broad is his appeal? Although he may wish to portray himself as a centrist alternative to more extreme presidential
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New NYT: The downside of Trump touting his polls
From my new Upshot column: Donald Trump misses no opportunity to remind us that he’s ahead in the polls for the Republican presidential nomination. During a rally in Claremont, N.H., last week, he said, “When people say, ‘Why do you always talk about the polls?’ I say, ‘Because I’m winning!’ Believe me, if I’m not
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New research on journalistic fact-checking
I have a new article out in the Journal of Communication with Lucas Graves and Jason Reifler on the reasons journalists engage in fact-checking (ungated preprint): Understanding Innovations in Journalistic Practice: A Field Experiment Examining Motivations for Fact-Checking Lucas Graves, Brendan Nyhan, and Jason Reifler Why has fact-checking spread so quickly within U.S. political journalism?