This is the first year that shibleyrahman.com has run a poll of political journalists, commentators and presenters. Unlike the Total Politics poll, this poll is not interested in how influential you feel that these people are in the political and media scene.
I am therefore not concerned what you feel about what other feel; I consider that this is totally misleading and unhelpful. I am only interested in how useful you find the person’s professional analysis, and what impact you feel their analysis has on your considered judgment . You certainly do not have to rate every journalist mentioned, just rate the ones you have an opinion on.
There are questions, covering many different types of journalists, reporters, sketch-writers, presenters and bloggers, in different types of media, such as radio, TV, broadsheets and the internet.
The survey should take about 5-10 minutes to complete, considerably shorter than Total Politics’ survey, but this of course entirely dependent on how many people you rate! So remember, 1 is the lowest mark and 10 is the highest. Remember, you are rating them for their level of influence.
Many thanks for taking part!
Dr Shibley Rahman
You can take part in the survey by clicking here.
These are the questions this year:
Columnists and commentators
Please rate the following political columnists and commentators by how useful you find their political analysis and how much impact they have on your judgments. You do not have to rate every journalist mentioned, for example ones you have never one, but please just rate the ones you have an opinion on. Remember, 1 is the lowest mark and 10 is the highest. Not all professionals are represented.
Andrew Grice, The Independent
Andrew Porter, Daily Telegraph
Andrew Sparrow, The Guardian
Anushka Asthana, The Observer
Ben Brogan, Daily Telegraph
Bob Roberts, Daily Mirror
Charles Moore, Daily Telegraph
Daniel Finklestein, The Times
Dave Wooding, News of the World
Dominic Lawson, The Independent
Fraser Nelson, The Spectator/News of the World
Iain Martin, Wall Street Journal
Ian Drury, Daily Mail
Isabelle Oakeshott, Sunday Times
Jackie Ashley, The Guardian
Jake Morris, Daily Mirror
James Lyons, Daily Mirror
James MacIntyre, New Statesman
Janet Daley, The Telegraph
Jason Beattie, Daily Mirror
Jean Eaglesham, Financial Times
Jim Pickard, Financial Times
Johann Hari, Independent/Huffington Post
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian/The Jewish Chronicle
Julia Hartley-Brewer, Sunday Express
Kevin Maguire, Daily Mirror
Kirsty Walker, Daily Mail
Marie Woolf, Sunday Times
Martin Bright, Jewish Chronicle
Matthew Parris, The Times
Mehdi Hasan, New Statesman
Melanie Philips, Daily Mail
Michael White, The Guardian
Nick Cohen, The Observer/New Statesman
Nigel Morris, The Independent
Patrick Hennessy, Daily Telegraph
Patrick Wintour, The Guardian
Peter Hitchens, Mail on Sunday
Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph
Polly Toynbee, The Guardian
Rachel Sylvester, The Times
Robert Winnett, Daily Telegraph
Roland Watson, The Times
Sam Coates, The Times
Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
Simon Jenkins, Guardian/Sunday Times
Steve Richards, The Independent
Suzanne Moore, Mail on Sunday
Toby Helm, The Observer
Trevor Kavanagh The Sun
Broadsheet sketch-writers
Please rate the following political sketch-writers by how useful you find their work, and how much impact they have on your judgments. You do not have to rate every journaist mentioned, for example ones you have never one, but please just rate the ones you have an opinion on. Remember, 1 is the lowest mark and 10 is the highest. Not all professionals are represented.
Andrew Gimson (Telegraph)
Ann Treneman (Times)
Quentin Letts (Mail)
Simon Carr (Independent)
Simon Hoggart (Guardian)
TV presenters and news reporters
Please rate the following TV presenters and news reporters by how useful you find their political analysis, and how much impact they have on your judgments. You do not have to rate every journalist mentioned, for example ones you have never one, but please just rate the ones you have an opinion on. Remember, 1 is the lowest mark and 10 is the highest. Not all professionals are represented.
Alex Forrest, ITN
Andrew Marr, BBC
Andrew Neil, BBC/This Week
Andy Bell, Five News
Anita Anand, Five Live
Ben Brown, BBC
Ben Wright, BBC
Carole Walker, BBC
Cathy Newman, Channel 4 News
Chris Ship, ITV News
David Dimbleby, BBC
Diane Abbott, This Week
Emily Maitlis, BBC
Gary Gibbon, Channel 4 News
Gavin Esler, BBC
James Landale, BBC
Jane Hill, BBC
Jeremy Paxman, BBC
Jo Coburn, BBC
Jon Snow, Channel 4 News
Kirsty Wark, BBC
Krishnan Gurumurty, Channel 4 News
Lucy Manning, ITN
Michael Crick, BBC
Michael Portillo, This Week
Niall Paterson, Sky News
Nick Robinson, BBC
Peter Spencer, Sky News
Reeta Chakrabarti, BBC
Samana Haq, ITN
Tom Bradby, ITV News
Vicky Young, BBC
Radio presenters and commentators
Please rate the following political radio presenters and commentators by how useful you find their political analysis. You do not have to rate every journalist mentioned, for example ones you have never one, but please just rate the ones you have an opinion on. Remember, 1 is the lowest mark and 10 is the highest. Not all professionals are represented.
Betsan Powys, BBC Wales
Eddie Barnes, Scotland on Sunday
Eddie Mair, Radio 4
Edward Stourton, Radio 4
Elinor Goodman, Radio 4
Evan Davis Radio 4
Gary O’Donoghue, BBC News
James Naughtie, Radio 4
Jeremy Vine, Radio 2
John Humphrys, Radio 4
John Pienaar, BBC TV and Five Live
Jonathan Dimbleby, Radio 4
Mark D’Arcy, Radio 4
Martha Kearney, Radio 4
Nicky Campbell, Five Live
Richard Bacon, Five Live
Ross Hawkins, BBC News
Sarah Montague, Radio 4
Shelagh Fogarty, Five Live
Victoria Derbyshire, Five Live
Political and lifestyle bloggers
Please rate the following political internet bloggers by how useful you find their political analysis, and how much impact they have on your judgments. You do not have to rate every journalist mentioned, for example ones you have never one, but please just rate the ones you have an opinion on. Remember, 1 is the lowest mark and 10 is the highest. Not all professionals are represented.
Alastair Campbell http://www.alastaircampbell.org/blog.php
Alex Hilton http://www.labourhome.org/
Claire French http://clairefrench.co.uk
David Alexander Hough http://politicalpundits.co.uk/?author=26
Guido Fawkes http://order-order.com/
John Redwood http://www.johnredwoodsdiary.com/
Kerry McCarthy http://www.kerry-mccarthy.blogspot.com/
Luke Akehurst http://lukeakehurst.blogspot.com/
Mark Ferguson http://www.labourlist.org/
Mark Pack http://www.markpack.org.uk/
Mike Denham http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/
Phil Hendren http://dizzythinks.net/
Shibley Rahman http://shibleyrahman.com
Sunder Katwala http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/
Sunny Hundal http://www.liberalconspiracy.org/
Tom Harris http://www.tomharris.org.uk/
Walaa Idris http://www.walaaidris.com
Will Straw http://www.leftfootfwd.org
Political Scrapbook http://politicalscrapbooknet
Think Politics blog http://thinkpolitics.co.uk/tpblogs/
Robin Bogg’s spot http://boggsblub.blogspot.com
Free Gary MacKinnon http://tweetstorm4gary.wordpress.com
Red Rag Online http://www.redragonline.com
The Spiderplant http://www.spiderplantland.co.uk
Young Labour Politico Blogger http://blogtomscholesfogg.co.uk/
One Nation Tory http://onenationtory.com/
The Right Way http://piemandmu.blogspot.com/
Obnoxio the Clown http://obotheclown.blogspot.com/
Chris Mills http://www.chrismills.me.uk
