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538.com Moves to NYT

Steven L. Taylor
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Via the NYT’s Media Decoder:  The New York Times To Host Political Polling Site FiveThirtyEight.

Mr. Silver, a statistical wizard, became a media star during the last presidential election season for his political projections based on dissections of polling data. He retains all rights to FiveThirtyEight and will continue to run it himself, but “under the banner and auspices of NYTimes.com,” The Times said in a news release.

The arrangement is similar to one The Times struck with the authors of the blog Freakonomics in 2007. The Freakonomics blog appears in the Opinion section of NYTimes.com. FiveThirtyEight content will be incorporated in the politics section of NYTimes.com.

Along with his contributions to the newspaper and The Times  Magazine, Mr. Silver will also work with the journalists and software developers who create interactive graphics for NYTimes.com.

Congrats to Nate Silver!

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2 responses to “538.com Moves to NYT”

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    Michael Reynolds

    It seems Nate Silver and I share a lawyer. Guy has the best office in Manhattan: Empire State Building out of one window, Chrysler Building out of the other.

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