Joe Lenski

Joe Lenski is co-founder and Executive Vice President of Edison Media Research. Since founding Edison Media Research in 1994, he has overseen the consistent and rapid growth of the company. With Edison Media Research, Lenski oversees hundreds of research projects each year for some of the world's largest media companies, conducting survey research and providing strategic information to radio stations, television stations, newspapers, cable networks, record labels, Internet companies and other media organizations.

Lenski is an expert in the operation and organization of survey research and has been involved in every major exit poll conducted in the last decade for the television networks. Under his supervision, in partnership with Mitofsky International, Edison Media Research currently conducts all exit polls and election projections for the six major news organizations - ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox, NBC and the Associated Press.

Lenski oversaw the design and operation of CNN RealVote, the vote gathering and election projections for CNN and appeared on air during CNN's election night coverage in 2002 to discuss the CNN election projection process. Lenski was part of the joint CNN/CBS Decision Team responsible for projecting all elections for broadcast from 1996 to 2000. He has worked as a Statistical Analyst for the CBS News/New York Times Poll from 1987-1989, and as a consultant for the network exit polling consortium, Voter News Service, from 1990 to 1994. Lenski has presented research both on Capitol Hill and the White House and has been a speaker at many conventions including the R&R Talk Radio Seminar, the R&R Convention, the Country Radio Seminar, NextMedia 2001, the New Jersey Broadcasters Association Convention, and the Vermont Broadcasters Association Convention. Lenski is a member of the Executive Council of the New York Chapter of the American Association of Public Opinion Research (NYAAPOR).

Lenski is a graduate of Princeton University and studied at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.