Press Room

2009

The News Deficit: Public television's role in informing Americans, Columbia Journalism Review, 6/2009.

2008

Obama escapes Bradley effect, but race still a factor, Globe and Mail, 11/2008. PDF
Campaigns on the Attack, Does It Work?, with Shanto Iyengar, KPFA Morning Show, 10/2008. MP3
Shanto Iyengar: Why Palin was a Mistake, Excerpt from Swissnex Panel: How Does News Media Impact Elections?, 10/2008. PANEL VIDEO
Researchers Say Voters Swayed by Candidates Who Share Their Looks, Stanford Report, 10/2008. PDF
Election 2008: The Advertising, washingtonpost.com, 8/2008. PDF
US Election Takes a Negative Turn, BBC News, 8/2008. PDF
Out of the press, out of mind, The Hill, 3/2008. PDF
Analysis: Will a Democrat cross the line to finish first?, The Dallas Morning News, 3/2008. PDF
When Negative is a Positive: Nasty Politics is Winning Politics, KPCC Pat Morrison Show, 1/2008. MP3
The Face of Power, Los Angeles Times, 1/2008. PDF

2007

Immigration reshapes politics everywhere, Politico.com, 12/2007
Presidential Ad Wars Heat Up: More Candidates Are Taking Their Signature Messages to TV Screens, Washington Post, 9/2007
Soft News, Hard Sell: Treating the Audience as Consumers, not Citizens, The Ripon Forum, 8/2007
Clinton's Campaign Embraces 'Social Networking', KGO-TV, 8/2007. PDF
Appearances may sway voters, but shouldn't overshadow serious campaign issues, Tribune-Star, 8/2007
Term limit backers direct focus on politicians' perks, Contra Costa Times, 5/2007
Opinion: Bad Public Policy Contributes to the Death Count, The Chronicle of Higher Education, 4/2007
New Ethics RulesDon't Stop Cash Flow, KGO, 1/2007

2006

Washington Post "Media Politics" Discussion with Shanto Iyengar, washingtonpost.com, 11/2006
Negative Ads Turnoff Voters, Enthrall News Media: Researcher says attack ads help candidates dominate press coverage, washingtonpost.com, 11/2006
Scientists Track Effects of Negative Ads, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 11/2006
Slipping in Political Mud, Toledo Blade, 11/2006
When it Comes to Campaign Ads, Klein, Shaw Play Rough, Sun-Sentinel, 11/2006
Wacky U.S. Election Ads Hit New Low in Personal Smears, Analysts Say , 570News.com, 10/2006
The Year Of Playing Dirtier: Negative Ads Get Positively Surreal, Washington Post, 10/2006
Campaign Ads on Oil Tax Mislead Public from Both Sides, Fort Worth Start-Telegram, 10/2006
In a War of Ads, Voters Lose, The Virginian-Pilot, 10/2006
In Experiment, Democrats' Ads Prove More Effective: More independent voters were swayed by Democratic appeals, washingtonpost.com, 10/2006
The Media Manipulation Edition, KALW, 10/2006
Impact of Negative Advertising, KQED Forum, 9/2006
Attack Ads Turnoff Undecided Voters, Baltimore Sun, 9/2006
Who Said What? Issue Advertising and the 2006 Vote washingtonpost.com, 9/2006
Republican Candidates Stress Independence from Bush, Party in TV Ads, International Herald Tribune, 9/2006
Angelides and the Charisma Question, Los Angeles Times, 8/2006
How Common Ground of 9/11 Gave Way to Partisan Split (Print Layout), Washington Post, 7/2006
How Common Ground of 9/11 Gave Way to Partisan Split, Washington Post, 7/2006
Mind the Gap: Differences in Public Knowledge about Domestic and Overseas Events, Washington Post, 7/2006
Unconventional Wisdom: Miserly Republicans, Unprincipled Democrats, Washington Post, 6/2006
Negative Campaigning Starts Early, KGO, 6/2006
Study participants favor whites over blacks for Katrina relief aid, San Francisco Chronicle, 6/2006
Natural Disasters in Black and White: How Racial Cues Influenced Public Response to Hurricane Katrina, Washington Post, 6/2006
Election fatigue could make polls a lonely place, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6/2006
Ad Attacks Lt. Governor-Candidate Garamendi, KGO, 6/2006
Westly Stumbles in the Mud, Los Angeles Times, 5/2006
Red Media, Blue Media: Evidence for a Political Litmus Test in Online News Readership, Washington Post, 5/2006
Polarization Across Party Lines, or Politics as Contact Sport, Washington Post, 3/2006
What's in a Face: Testing the Familiarity-Likeability Connection, Washington Post, 2/2006

2005

Governor stakes political capital on 'year of reform' initiatives, The Mercury News, 10/2005
Democratization of Media and Information Societies - Potential and Reality, Swiss Centre for Studies on the Global Information Society Conference Keynote, Shanto Iyengar, 6/2005, More...
Subtle product plugs seen in governor's TV ad, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/2005
No offseason for political ads, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5/2005
Fact Check: Unions Vs. Gov. Schwarzenegger, AP, 5/2005
Don't Tell Me Again, Washington Post, 4/2005
Playing the fear card, Guardian, 4/2005
Media Blitz mars Mayoral Campaign, KPCC AirTalk, 4/2005

2004 -

Research Perspectives on Voter Decision-making (Session IV), Kaiser Family Foundation, 11/2004
A Good Dirty Fight, New York Times, 11/2004
Ads Push the Factual Envelope, Washington Post, 11/2004
Vice Presidential Debates, KQED Forum, 11/2004
Winning the war of words, Salon.com, 11/2004
Bin Laden's Image Crops Up in Ads, Los Angeles Times, 10/2004
Edwards and Cheney Prepare for Ohio Showdown, National Public Radio, 10/2004
Block the Vote, Wall Street Journal, 10/2004
Edwards Is No Cheney -- And That's the Plan, Washington Post, 10/2004
Why a Conflicted Kerry Voted Yes -- and Later No -- on Iraq, Los Angeles Times, 7/2004
Party-Funded Ads to Help Kerry 'Ride Wave', Los Angeles Times, 7/2004
From Bush, Unprecedented Negativity, Washington Post, 5/2004
Edwards Wins: A Theory Tested, New York times, 5/2004
Using M.R.I.'s To See Politics On the Brain, New York times, 4/2004
How the images of prison abuse shape perceptions of the war, Christian Science Monitor, 4/2004
TV Ads Portray Bush Tackling Tough Times, Washington Post, 3/2004
Creating Deliberative Democracy Online: Deliberative Polling and its Implications, Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society Speakers Series, James Fishkin & Shanto Iyengar, 10/2003
Primary Colors: The Presidential Primary System, Uncommon Knowledge, 3/2000