Nieman Journalism Lab24d
Don’t trust the polls? Neither did The New York Times in 1956 (spoiler: it didn’t work out great)
In response to national pollsters’ failure in forecasting election outcomes in 1948 and 1952, The New York Times pursued in 1956 a weeks-long, multi-state exercise in on-the-ground reporting to assess ...
No antidote for bad polls: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting
No antidote for bad polls The 1956 experiment in shoe-leather reporting was no rousing success. “There was some feeling,” ...
Election outcome
Real-time stock price for Mackenzie Strategic Income Class Series J - FE (MFC1956.CF), along with buy or sell indicators, analysis, charts, historical performance, news and more ...
Times Union1mon
‘No antidote for bad polls’: Recalling the New York Times’ 1956 election experiment in shoe-leather reporting
To cover the 1956 presidential election, the Times de-emphasized opinion polls in favor of its own intensive, on-the-ground reporting that focused on states where the presidential race was ...