The Monkey Cage (blog)

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The Monkey Cage was a blog published by The Washington Post from 2013 through 2022. [1] [2] [3] [4] The blog was created in 2007. [5] The blog was created in part to push back on political media coverage and policy discourse that ignored political science research. [5] [6] The blog's contents have been described as a form of explainer-journalism, [6] as the blog primarily published short editorials by academic political scientists who summarized their political-science research or apply political science to current events. The blog also occasionally published pieces by scholars in related academic disciplines. [7] [8]

In 2011, the blog won "Blog of the Year" by TheWeek magazine. [9] The blog's content has been cited in numerous newspapers. [8] According to John M. Sides, the blog was visited by 719,000 people and viewed over 2 million times from November 2007 and December 2010. [8]

After leaving the Washington Post the blog plans to relaunch as an independent site in 2023. [4] It has since relaunched as the website Good Authority. [10]

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References

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  2. Gold, Hadas (26 August 2013). "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. 1 2 TMC Editorial Team (5 December 2022). "A transition for TMC (The Monkey Cage): Moving on from The Washington Post". Washington Post. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
  5. 1 2 "How academic blog 'Monkey Cage' became part of the mainstream media". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved 2020-03-13.
  6. 1 2 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. Retrieved 30 May 2023.
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  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. "About". Good Authority. 2023-09-21. Retrieved 2023-11-26.