“We were the driving publication behind coverage of that recount. “The first two weeks were very hectic,” as they covered the primary and the ensuing recount. “There wasn’t any time for the typical onboarding process, and it helped that I’d already had the Decision Desk experience and a domestic politics and elections background, so I could just jump right in,” Jenkins-Wong says. Things were extremely busy, and Jenkins-Wong hit the ground running.
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It was right in the midst of the Pennsylvania Senate Republican primary, a tight race that resulted in a recount with former hedge fund CEO David McCormick narrowly losing to TV doctor Mehmet Oz. Jenkins-Wong started at The Inquirer’s data-driven storytelling desk, run by reporter and editor Jonathan Lai, in May 2022. Tyler Jenkins-Wong, a third-year majoring in international relations from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, is a teaching assistant for PORES and a student fellow who worked for the NBC Decision Desk in November 2021 and last fall for the midterm elections. “it’s a win” for all parties, Arenge says. PORES is able to pay the student fellows at a time when news organizations need their data-analysis skills more than ever but might not have the hiring budget.
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It’s a nice way for them to get professional experience that is very much beneficial to these organizations.” “As the data science world continues to expand across different industries, it’s essential that our students directly apply the skills they learn in the classroom to experiential learning opportunities in a real world setting,” says John Lapinski, faculty director of the Fox Leadership Program, director of PORES, faculty director of the Fels Institute of Government, and director of elections at NBC News.Īndrew Arenge, director of operations for PORES and the Fox Leadership Program, says he thinks the work students are doing at places like The Inquirer is “a natural outgrowth of the skill sets that students are learning day to day right in our classes. The program provides Penn undergraduate students with valuable training in public opinion theory and research through specialized courses, mentoring, and hands-on instruction with leading industry organizations. It aims to develop a data-driven approach to understanding political outcomes in the United States through public opinion survey research and poll analysis. PORES is an undergraduate research program committed to conducting high-quality social research in the public interest on issues of national and international importance. “Our students are able to pitch stories or projects using data as a foundation to help improve business practices, and, so far, it’s worked well for the organizations and the students,” Perry says. PORES students have helped NBC’s Decision Desk since the 2016 presidential election. She’s also the manager for exit polls at NBC News, a team that had several PORES students working through Election Night during midterms in the fall. Fox Leadership Program and PORES in the School of Arts & Sciences. “A lot of organizations we partner with don’t have designated data teams yet,” says Stephanie Perry, executive director of the Robert A. Most recently, student fellows have been creating data-driven journalism as part of PORES’ partnership with The Philadelphia Inquirer. But that’s not the case for fellows in the Penn Program on Opinion Research and Election Studies (PORES), where students have put their data-analysis skills to work in fields from nonprofits tackling food insecurity to entities focusing on getting out the vote. For many undergraduates, real-world use of skills learned in the classroom typically comes after graduation.
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