"ThinkProgress" had a staff of five in 2006 and 42 in 2017. In 2015, the staff of "ThinkProgress" unionized with the Writers Guild of America, East. Previous staffers who went on to write for other media outlets include Alyssa Rosenberg and Andrea Peterson, who joined "The Washington Post"; Matthew Yglesias, who moved to "Slate" and Vox; Zaid Jilani, who writes for "The Intercept"; and Nico Pitney and Amanda Terkel, who joined "The Huffington Post". Shakir became Nancy Pelosi's Director of New Media.