June 3, 2010

NiemanLab.org
“There’s a real startup quality to FiveThirtyEight,” Times digital editor Jim Roberts tells Megan Garber. “And we’ve got a giant infrastructure here of graphics editors, multimedia producers, interactive technologists — a lot of people who are big fans of Nate Silver and FiveThirtyEight, who are really eager to work with him. They’ll make his blog better.”
> Calderone: The hire is an unorthodox one for the Times
> Sargent: Why didn’t NYT mention Silver’s liberalism?

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