Here is a selection of articles and commentary WJC has written over the years for news outlets and scholarly journals.

• NPR’s Berliner was right
  (PJ Media, April 23, 2024)
• It’s time to retire the laziest cliche in election polling
  (The Hill, April 17, 2024)
• Why Truman’s 1948 upset is no template for 2024 election
  (Fortune, April 5, 2024)
• Murrow was hardly first journalist to take on Joe McCarthy
  (The Conversation, March 1, 2024)
• Should we trust early-in-the-cycle presidential election polls?
  (The Conversation, February 12, 2024)
• Presidential election polls: What to expect in 2024
  (The Messenger, December 27, 2023)
• Often in error but seductive still: Why we can’t quit election polls
  (The Conversation, October 6, 2023)
• What the ‘Dewey defeats Truman’ polling failure can teach us as 2024 approaches
  (The Messenger September 12, 2023)
• The Smithsonian hangs an incomplete portrait of a decisive war
  (The Messenger August 12, 2023)
• Watergate’s ‘gift of the gods’: The surprise disclosure of Nixon’s tapes, 50 years on
  (The Messenger July 14, 2023)
• What polling’s past may tell us about Trump’s summertime lead over rivals
  (The Messenger July 1, 2023)
• 2022 midterm polls: More spotty than spectacular
  (The Conversation November 17, 2022)
• With memories of embarrassments still fresh, pollsters face big tests in 2022 midterm elections
  (The Conversation October 24, 2022)
• Misfires and surprises: Polling embarrassments in recent U.S. presidential elections
  (American Behavioral Scientist August 29, 2022)
• Woodward and Bernstein didn’t bring down a president in Watergate — but the myth they did lives on
  (The Conversation June 14, 2022)
  

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• 50 years after ‘Napalm Girl,’ myths distort the reality behind a horrific photo of the Vietnam War and exaggerate its impact
  (The Conversation June 2, 2022)
• What history reminds us midterm narratives shaped months before elections
  (The Hill April 20, 2022)
• After a misfire in New Jersey, pollster offers remarkable apology for error
  (The Hill November 12, 2021)
• Polling misfired in 2020 — and that’s a lesson for journalists, pundits
  (The Hill July 26, 2021)
• Elections polls in 2020 produced ‘error of unusual magnitude’
  (The Conversation July 20, 2021)
• Still a mystery why polls failed so markedly in 2020
  (The Conversation May 20, 2021)
• Confronting the Bay of Pigs-New York Times suppression myth
  (The Conversation April 2, 2021)
• Election polling faces a prolonged convalescence
  (Baltimore Sun November 20, 2020)
• What polling could use now
  (The Conversation November 10, 2020)
• Another polling embarrassment
  (The Conversation November 4, 2020)
• A Q-and-A with a historian of election polls
  (The Conversation November 3, 2020)
• How ‘Dewey defeats Truman’ election offers insight into 2020
  (Fortune November 2, 2020)
• Why we are so enamored with elections polls
  (The Conversation October 29, 2020)
• Five scenarios that could yet disrupt the campaign’s endgame
  (The Conversation October 21, 2020)
• Poll-inspired cockiness and its hazards
  (The Hill October 15, 2020)
• Epic miscalls and landslides unforeseen
  (The Conversation October 14, 2020)
• Revisiting the first presidential debate
  (The Hill September 28, 2020)
• Whatever happened to poll-bashing?
  (The Conversation September 23, 2020)
• Tall tales about election polling
  (Baltimore Sun September 11, 2020)
• Why polling failure is often journalistic failure
  (The Hill August 30, 2020)
• The hazards of glide-path campaigning
  (The Hill July 30, 2020)
• Pitfalls of political polling
  (Baltimore Sun October 19, 2018)
• Quelques preuves seraient les bienvenues
  (Les Cahiers du Journalisme January-March 2018)
• Hurricane wash-out
  (Crain’s NewsPro October 2017)
• Woodward, Bernstein didn’t bring down Nixon
  (Baltimore Sun, June 13, 2017)
• Confronting the myths of the ‘Napalm Girl’
  (Baltimore Sun, March 31, 2017)
• The rise and fall of Netscape
  (Baltimore Sun, August 8, 2016)
• O.J. fervor and the ‘trial of the century’ myth
  (Baltimore Sun, June 9, 2016)
• The five media myths of Watergate
  (BBC News online, June 16, 2012)
• Story of the most famous seven words in U.S. journalism
  (BBC News online, February 10, 2012)
• Halloween myth of The War of the Worlds
  (BBC News online, October 29, 2011)
• William Randolph Hearst: Mythical media bogeyman
  (BBC News online, August 14, 2011)
• A dozen overrated: Twelve books not as good as their reputations
  (American Journalism 26, (1) Winter 2009)
• The grudging emergence of American journalism’s classic editorial:
  New details about “Is There A Santa Claus?”
  (American Journalism 22, (2) Spring 2005)
• American journalism’s exceptional year
  (Journalism History 29, 4 (Winter 2004)
• Not a hoax: New evidence in the New York Journal‘s rescue of Evangelina Cisneros
  (American Journalism 19, 4 (Fall 2002)
• Letter: Warmongering mythology
  (Washington Post August 24 2002)
• What’s good about yellow journalism
  (Presstime November 2001)
• Not likely sent: The Remington-Hearst ‘telegrams’
  (Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, Summer 2000)
• A look back at a look ahead: How fared predictions for 20th-Century newspapers?
  (Editor&Publisher December 25, 1999
• “One of the fine figures in American journalism”: A closer look at Josephus Daniels of the Raleigh News & Observer
  (American Journalism 16 (4) Fall 1999)
• The new Afro pessimism
  (Hartford Courant March 20, 1994)