FiveThirtyEight, the influential political data site first launched by stats guru Nate Silver in 2008, is being shut down amid sweeping layoffs being enacted by Disney across ABC News and Disney ...
US – American political polling news website FiveThirtyEight ( 538 ) has closed down, with owner The Walt Disney Company rolling it into ABC News. Disney closed 538 and laid off around 15 employees as ...
“They deserved much better.” After beginning as a politics-focused blog under the name FiveThirtyEight, the site’s coverage would eventually expand to include sports, economic and pop ...