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 The Week 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]

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 (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.
  8. 1 2 3 Sides, John (2011). "The Political Scientist as a Blogger". PS: Political Science & Politics. 44 (2): 267–271. doi:10.1017/S1049096511000060. ISSN 1537-5935. S2CID 154727650.
  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.
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