Courtney Kennedy is director of survey research at Pew Research Center. In this role, she serves as the chief survey methodologist for the Center, providing guidance on all of its research and leading its methodology work. Recently, she chaired AAPOR’s Evaluation of 2016 U.S. Election Polls. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, Kennedy served as vice president of the advanced methods group at Abt SRBI, where she was responsible for designing complex surveys, developing data collection methodologies and assessing data quality. Her work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and the Journal of Official Statistics. She has worked as a statistical consultant on the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial census and on multiple reports appearing in Newsweek. Kennedy has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, both in survey methodology. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan.
NPC members invited to webinar on election polling, Jan. 15
National Press Club journalists covering the 2020 election are invited to a free webinar on election polling from the American Association for Public Opinion Research.
The webinar, "Accuracy in election polling: Lessons from 2016 for covering 2020," will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 15 and is free to Club members.
AAPOR is a professional association that promotes best practices and integrity in conducting, analyzing and reporting public opinion research.
To register for the webinar, click here.
Topics to be covered include AAPOR’s 2016 election evaluation, best practices for covering primary and general election polls, potential pitfalls ahead of primary season, margins of error, and what to look for when analyzing the results.
Emily Guskin is the polling analyst at The Washington Post, specializing in public opinion about politics, election campaigns and public policy. The polling team works alongside reporters throughout the newsroom and conducts polls at the national and local levels. In addition to writing questionnaires and analyzing data, Emily also vets polls for internal usage, advises reporters on how to cover and write about polls, and sources polling data for reporters looking for public opinion data points for their stories.
Before joining The Post in 2016, Emily was a research manager at APCO Worldwide and, prior to that, she was a research analyst at the Pew Research Center's Journalism Project. She interned at ABC News’ polling unit in 2008. She has a master’s in public policy from the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University and undergraduate degrees in communication and government and politics from the University of Maryland in College Park.
Emily currently serves as the chair of AAPOR’s Journalism Education subcommittee, where she leads a committee to help raise journalists’ awareness of AAPOR’s offerings and to provide them with the tools to properly cover polls.