ThinkProgress
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Type of site
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Political blog |
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| Available in | English |
| Owner | Center for American Progress Action Fund |
| Editor | Judd Legum |
| Website | thinkprogress.org |
| Alexa rank |
 5,250 (October 2016[update]) |
| Launched | 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
ThinkProgress is an American political news blog. It is a project of the Center for American Progress (CAP), a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. The blog is edited by Judd Legum, who founded it in 2005. It is divided into the sections climate, economy, health, justice, LGBT, world, culture, sports, politics and features.
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 separate blog sections, organized by subject matter, and consolidated other CAP blogs. The blog's sections include climate, economy, health, justice, LGBT, world, culture, sports, politics and features.
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.
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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