Ira Chinoy is an associate professor at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, where he founded and directs the Future of Information Alliance. He is a former investigative reporter for the Washington Post, where he also served as director of computer-assisted reporting. Chinoy was part of two teams that won Pulitzer Prizes for reporting and has won the George Polk Award and other top journalism awards.

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Predicting the Winner by Ira Chinoy

November 4, 1952, changed American elections forever, as newfangled “electronic brains” made their television debut to predict the winner from early returns. In Predicting the Winner, Ira Chinoy reveals how this pioneering moment sparked our fascination with election data and set the stage for today’s digital political landscape.