How Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight Will Tackle the News
Site will include infographics, videos and even films
News organizations have always treated data as simply a complement to the news, but freshly relaunched FiveThirtyEight is flipping that idea on its head. Hot topics are secondary to stats with the Nate Silver-led startup, which promises impartiality and—unlike so much of its be-first-now-be-right-later blog competitors—hopes to never end up with egg on its face.
“We’ve all seen that there can be a cost on rushing to be first,” managing editor Mike Wilson told Adweek.
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