Think Progress

ThinkProgress

Type of site	News and political blogs
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 news website. It is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAP Action), a progressive public policy research and advocacy organization. The editor-in-chief is Judd Legum, who founded ThinkProgress in 2005. The site's reports have been discussed by mainstream news outlets and peer-reviewed academic journals. It has a climate section, founded by Joe Romm, formerly known as Climate Progress.

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 until 2012, when Legum returned as 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 sections organized by subject matter, and other CAP Action blogs were consolidated into the site. The site was then divided into sections covering climate, economy, health, justice, LGBT, world, culture, sports, politics and features. In 2017, the site's organization returned to a less segmented presentation.ThinkProgress describes itself as "editorially independent" of the Center for American Progress and CAP Action.

ThinkProgress had a staff of five in 2006 and 42 in 2017. In 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 Vox; Zaid Jilani, who writes for The Intercept; and Nico Pitney and Amanda Terkel, who joined The Huffington Post. Shakir became Nancy Pelosi's Director of New Media.

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