Dr. Frank Newport is Editor in Chief of The Gallup Poll in Princeton, New Jersey, and is in charge of the nation's best-known and longest-running continuous monitor of American public opinion. The Gallup Poll conducts more than 60,000 interviews each year, and in partnership with USA Today provides up-to-the-minute and comprehensive polling on political and topical issues.
Newport is Vice President of the National Council on Public Polls, is on the Executive Council of the American Association of Public Opinion Research, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. He is the author of Polling Matters - Why Leaders Must Listen to the Wisdom of the People and coauthor with Stuart Rothenberg of The Evangelical Voter. Newport contributed to the book series Where America Stands, and to The Ethnic Voter and Ethnic Voters and National Issues. With Alec Gallup, he is the coeditor of The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion 2004 and 2005. His articles and op-ed pieces have appeared in many publications, including the American Sociological Review, Public Opinion Quarterly, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.
Newport earned a bachelor's degree from Baylor University and a master's and doctorate degree in sociology from the University of Michigan. He taught sociology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, was a talk show host at KTRH Radio in Houston, and became a partner at a Houston market and public opinion research company before moving to Princeton to take his current position with Gallup.
Newport appears regularly on CNBC's "Kudlow and Company" and other television and cable news shows. He is the on-air host of Gallup's daily Web cast program "The Daily Briefing" at galluppoll.com, which is available as a podcast on iTunes. He is author of weekly analyses on The Gallup Poll Web site and has a regular weekly program on NPR affiliate WHYY in Philadelphia. His new blog, "Gallup Guru," appears on www.usatoday.com.
Newport lives near Princeton, New Jersey. He is married and has four children.
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