Pew Research Center's own account of its history, tracing its origin to a 1990 Times Mirror polling project, its 1996 renaming under Pew Charitable Trusts sponsorship, and its 2004 establishment as an independent nonpartisan research organization, is an institutional self-description rather than outside scholarship about the center. It is a reliable source for exactly those organizational facts, founding dates, leadership and structure. Its value for the atlas is chiefly establishing Pew Research Center's own standing and methodology as a source, since the atlas cites Pew's survey findings on religion elsewhere, and knowing the organization is a nonpartisan, professionally staffed survey research body with peer-reviewed methodology, rather than an advocacy group, is relevant background for weighing those findings, even though this particular entry is about the organization rather than any specific survey result.
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Reliability Tier2
Reliability tier 2: an institutional self description of the organization's own history, reliable for organizational facts about the source itself rather than outside scholarship, useful background for weighing the survey findings the atlas cites elsewhere. NotesThe Center's own institutional history page, covering its origin in the Times Mirror Center for the People and the Press (founded 1990), its 1996 renaming under Pew Charitable Trusts sponsorship, its 2004 establishment as an independent Pew subsidiary under founding director Andrew Kohut, and Michael Dimock's succession as president in October 2014. A continuously maintained institutional page rather than a dated publication, so no publication year is recorded. Confirmed live via search citation.
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AuthorPew Research Center
PublisherPew Research Center
URLhttps://www.pewresearch.org/about/our-history/
Source Typeorganization primary source
Claims Backed By This Source (17 claims)
This source backs 17 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Organizations, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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