FiveThirtyEight, the now-defunct data journalism publication founded by Nate Silver, was a true unicorn in digital media. The site, which covered two distinct verticals — sports and politics — offered ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Less than a month after ABC News slashed the staffing at its FiveThirtyEight data-driven journalism brand, and saw founder Nate ...
FiveThirtyEight has finally found its replacement in The Economist’s G. Elliot Morris. ABC News has tapped Morris as the editorial director of data analytics for the news division, a position that ...
“‘Data journalism’ may have been a dumb name for what we were doing — that one’s on me — and Fivey Fox aside, the Five ThirtyEight brand was never warm and cuddly. But it always found a huge audience, ...
ABC News is expected to retain the FiveThirtyEight brand, with plans to streamline the data-driven site. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor The second round of Disney layoffs hit ABC News on Tuesday, with ...
FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver and at least some of the data-driven site’s 35-person staff are leaving ABC News as part of broader layoffs at The Walt Disney Company. (Or, in the words of ABC ...
Morris who joins ABC from The Economist, will lead data journalism for the division, including FiveThirtyEight. By Alex Weprin Senior Editor Less than a month after ABC News slashed the staffing at ...