The Monkey Cage (blog)

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The Monkey Cage is a blog published by The Washington Post since 2013.[1][2][3] The blog was created in 2007.[4] The blog was created in part to push back on political media coverage and policy discourse which ignored political science research.[5][6] The blog's contents have been described as a form of explainer-journalism,[6] as the blog primarily publishes short editorials by academic political scientists who summarize their political science research or apply political science to current events. The blog also occasionally publishes pieces by scholars in related academic disciplines.[7][8]

In 2011, the blog won "Blog of the Year" by The Week magazine.[9] The blog's content has been cited in numerous newspapers.[10] According to John Sides, the blog was visited by 719,000 people and viewed over 2 million times from November 2007 and December 2010.[10]

References[]

  1. ^ Kafka, Alexander C. (2016-01-10). "How the Monkey Cage Went Ape". The Chronicle of Higher Education. ISSN 0009-5982. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
  2. ^ Gold, Hadas. "Monkey Cage to Washington Post". POLITICO. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
  3. ^ "The Monkey Cage joins The Washington Post in a Wonkbloggy, 538ish deal". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
  4. ^ "How academic blog 'Monkey Cage' became part of the mainstream media". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
  5. ^ "How academic blog 'Monkey Cage' became part of the mainstream media". Chronicle of Higher Education. 2018. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  6. ^ a b Nexon, Dan (2021-07-11). "The Vision Thing: More on the New Duck". The Duck of Minerva. Retrieved 2021-07-14.
  7. ^ "About The Monkey Cage". The Washington Post. 2019.
  8. ^ Sides, John (2011). "The Political Scientist as a Blogger". PS: Political Science & Politics. 44 (2): 267–271. doi:10.1017/S1049096511000060. ISSN 1537-5935.
  9. ^ Farley, Robert (2013). "Complicating the Political Scientist as Blogger". PS: Political Science & Politics. 46 (2): 383–386. doi:10.1017/S1049096513000061. ISSN 1049-0965.
  10. ^ a b Sides, John (2011). "The Political Scientist as a Blogger". PS: Political Science & Politics. 44 (2): 267–271. doi:10.1017/S1049096511000060. ISSN 1049-0965.
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