Congressional Quarterly

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'''''Congressional Quarterly''''', or '''''CQ''''', is an American publication that is part of the privately owned publishing company CQ Roll Call, which covers the [[United States Congress]]. ''CQ'' was formerly acquired by the U.K.-based [[The Economist Group|Economist Group]] and combined with ''[[Roll Call]]'' to form CQ Roll Call in 2009.

==History==
===20th century===
[[File:CQ Building Entrance.jpg|thumb|Since April 2011, the merged CQ Roll Call has been located in the [[NoMa]] neighborhood of [[Washington, D.C.]]]]
''CQ'' was founded in 1945 by [[Nelson Poynter]] and his wife, [[Henrietta Poynter]], to provide a link between local [[newspaper]]s and the complex politics within [[Washington, D.C.]]

[[Thomas N. Schroth]], managing editor of the ''[[Brooklyn Eagle]]'', was elected in October 1955 as executive editor and vice president.<ref>Via ''[[United Press International]]''. [https://www.nytimes.com/1955/10/30/archives/schroth-heads-quarterly.html "Schroth Heads Quarterly"], ''[[The New York Times]]'', October 30, 1955. Accessed August 5, 2009.</ref> Schroth built the publication's impartial coverage, with annual revenue growth from $150,000 when he started to $1.8 million. In addition to adding a book division, Schroth added many staff members who achieved future journalistic success, including [[David S. Broder]], Neal R. Peirce, and [[Elizabeth Drew]]. He was fired from ''Congressional Quarterly'' in 1969 after festering disagreements with Poynter over editorial policy at the publication, and Schroth's efforts to advocate "more imaginative ways of doing things" reached a boil.<ref>Weber, Bruce. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/us/05schroth.html "Thomas N. Schroth, Influential Washington Editor, Is Dead at 88"], ''The New York Times'', August 4, 2009. Accessed August 5, 2009.</ref>

In 1965, Poynter summed up his reasons for founding ''CQ'': "The federal government will never set up an adequate agency to check on itself, and a foundation is too timid for that. So it had to be a private enterprise beholden to its clients." Despite its name, ''CQ'' was published quarterly for only one year. Demand drove more frequent updates, first weekly, then daily. ''CQ'' was also an early leader in delivering information on a real-time basis, starting with a [[dial-up]] service in 1984. Its website dominates the online legislative tracking information market and has been nominated for several awards. ''CQ'' has since launched several web-only newsletters with a greater focus on particular areas, including ''CQ Homeland Security'', ''CQ BudgetTracker'', and ''CQ HealthBeat''.

===21st century===
In 2005, ''CQ''<nowiki/>'s flagship publication, the ''Weekly Report'', was relaunched as ''CQ Weekly'' with a wider focus, including "government, commerce, and politics." A daily publication, ''CQ Today'', also is available every day when Congress is in session. ''CQ Today''{{'}}s main print competition is Atlantic Media's ''CongressDaily''.

In May 2008, ''[[CQ Press]]'' was purchased by [[SAGE Publishing]].<ref>{{cite news|date=May 30, 2008|title=SAGE acquires CQ Press, Book-Publishing Unit of Congressional Quarterly Inc.|publisher=SAGE Publications|url=http://www.cqpress.com/docs/cqpress-sale-announcement.pdf}}</ref> Although it retains the name "CQ Press" (a trademark of Congressional Quarterly), CQ Press is no longer an affiliate of Congressional Quarterly.

Until 2009, ''CQ'' was owned by the [[Times Publishing Company]] of [[St. Petersburg, Florida]], publisher of the ''[[Tampa Bay Times]]'' and other publications. The Times Publishing Company is, in turn, owned by the [[Poynter Institute]], a school for journalists founded by Nelson Poynter. [[The Economist Group]] acquired ''CQ'' in 2009 and combined it with ''[[Roll Call]]''; the terms of the deal were not disclosed.<ref>''[[The Guardian]]'', [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2009/jul/22/congressional-quarterly-the-economist-group "The Economist Group Buys Congressional Quarterly"], July 22, 2009</ref>

In July 2018, a deal was announced for CQ Roll Call to be acquired by [[FiscalNote]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calderone |first=Michael |date=25 July 2018 |title=Economist Group to sell CQ Roll Call to FiscalNote |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/25/economist-cq-fiscal-note-740421 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180725184326/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/25/economist-cq-fiscal-note-740421 |archive-date=25 July 2018 |website=Politico}}</ref>

==Awards==
Ten ''CQ'' reporters have won the "Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for Distinguished Reporting of Congress" from the [[National Press Foundation]]: [[Alan Ehrenhalt]] in 1983, Joan Biskupic in 1991, Janet Hook in 1992, George Hager in 1996, Jackie Koszczuk in 1997, Sue Kirchhoff in 2000, John Cochran in 2003, [[Jonathan Allen (journalist)|Jonathan Allen]] in 2008, Matt Fuller in 2015 and John M. Donnelly in 2018.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.nationalpress.org/info-url3520/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=118438 | title=Everett McKinley Dirksen Awards for Distinguished Reporting of Congress, Past Winners 1980-2008 | publisher=[[National Press Foundation]] | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090127031453/http://www.nationalpress.org/info-url3520/info-url_show.htm?doc_id=118438 | archive-date=2009-01-27 }}</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.cqrollcall.com/ '''CQ Roll Call''' corporate website]

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