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Nate Silver, Clare Malone, and Galen Druke are reviving FiveThirtyEight’s ethos with a new nonpartisan, data-driven politics show called Still Counting on Crooked Media, aiming to cover the 2026 midterms and topics like AI and prediction markets in politics.
Nate Silver, the founder of data journalism website FiveThirtyEight, will not have his contract renewed by ABC News when it expires this summer as part of Disney's latest round of layoffs affecting thousands of employees. ABC News is expected to keep the FiveThirtyEight brand name, though the network has plans to streamline the site for the 2024 election. The future of FiveThirtyEight has been the subject of intense speculation in recent months, with insiders lamenting a lack of enthusiasm at ABC to adopt a subscription-based model to drive profitability.
Disney's second round of layoffs hit ABC News, with FiveThirtyEight among those being impacted. Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, is expected to leave Disney when his contract is up. ABC News plans to keep the FiveThirtyEight brand name and streamline the site. The cuts are part of a larger cost-cutting effort at Disney, with the company seeking to slash a total of 7,000 jobs. By the end of this week, the company expects to have shed about 4,000 positions.