View Post SportsNewser Nate Silver Sold FiveThirtyEight To ESPN By Alex Weprin on Jul. 22, 2013 - 4:23 PM FiveThirtyEight creator Nate Silver didn’t just leave the New York Times to join ESPN (and ABC News), he sold his company to them. On a conference call this afternoon, Silver confirmed that ESPN acquired the FiveThirtyEight ...
View Post SportsNewser ESPN Makes Big Bets Amid Discontent By Alex Weprin on Jul. 22, 2013 - 10:48 AM ESPN has made a pair of big, splashy hires in the least two weeks, securing Keith Olbermann for a new nightly talk show on ESPN2, and the expected addition of Nate Silver and his FiveThirtyEight blog in the coming days. Their addi ...
MSNBC Exploring Huffington’s MSNBC Guest Hosting Gig By SteveK on Nov. 17, 2008 - 1:25 PM As first reported on TVNewser, Arianna Huffington will guest host The Rachel Maddow Show tonight on MSNBC. Huffington writes about some of the guests being lined up, including Bill Maher, Google CEO Eric Schmidt and FiveThirtyEigh ...