John Newhagen, Author at MediaFile

About the author John Newhagen

John Newhagen is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. John worked as a foreign correspondent in Central America and the Caribbean for nearly 10 years. He served as bureau chief in San Salvador, regional correspondent in Mexico City, and foreign editor in Washington, D.C. for United Press International during the 1980s. Newhagen’s research on the effects of emotion in television and on the Internet have been published widely in a number of leading academic journals. Newhagen holds a bachelor’s degree in Latin American Studies and a Master’s degree in Journalism at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and a Ph.D. in communication at Stanford University. He came to the University of Maryland to teach in the College of Journalism in July of 1990 and was named Associate Professor Emeritus during the summer of 2014.

Do Journalists Legitimize the Trump Presidency by Reporting Lies? The Case of “Fake” Polls

This is the sixth piece in a series of op-eds about polling in the 2016 presidential election. Read the previous piece here. John E. Newhagen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. President Trump has cited post-election polls showing low

Op-ed: Postmortem – The Polls Weren’t the Problem, Journalism Was

This is the fifth piece in a series of op-eds about polling in the election. Read the previous piece here. John E. Newhagen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Post-election analysis is awash with commentary and analysis asking how

Op-ed: A Cautionary Note About the Role of Emotion in Understanding the Polls

This is the fourth piece in a series of op-eds about polling in the election. Read the previous piece here. John E. Newhagen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. The thing that makes me especially wary of this year’s

Op-ed: Rethinking the Polls. Counting chickens that will never hatch and the unlikely voter

This is the third piece in a series of op-eds about polling in the election. Read the first here and the previous piece here. John E. Newhagen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. The key to predicting who is going

Op-ed: Rethinking the Polls. Whistling Past the Graveyard – The Threat of Low Response Rates in Political Polls

This is the second in a series of op-eds about polling in the election. Read the previous piece here. John E. Newhagen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. “Rip” Smith, played by Jimmy Stewart, solved the problem of getting respondents to

Op-ed: Rethinking the Polls. Why many polling stories mislead readers and viewers – and why that is really important in a scary election.

This is the first in a series of op-eds about polling in the election. John E. Newhagen is an associate professor emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Philip Merrill College of Journalism. Most polling stories go straight to the horserace – they focus on who