Nate Silver quits New York Times to take up 'dream job' at ESPN

The Guardian ^ | July 22, 2013 | Tom McCarthy

[Hieronymus]

The top forecaster in American politics has announced he is leaving the nation's most prestigious newspaper for a new home with the world's premier sportscaster.

Nate Silver is joining ESPN from the New York Times after a stunning three-year run in which he coolly nailed the biggest election calls, attracted an enormous readership and silenced pundits whose mouths were previously thought to be un-stanchable.

At ESPN, Silver will serve as editor-in-chief of a new site, built by him, to apply statistical analysis to sports and a broad range of other fields. The new site will retain the name FiveThirtyEight, in reflection of the US electoral votes total, which Silver adopted before he joined the Times. Silver got his start analyzing baseball statistics and has co-authored numerous books on the subject.

In his new role, Silver, 35, will also analyze politics for ABC News, which shares a corporate parent, Disney, with ESPN

[Hieronymus]

NYT's loss. I like Silver's way of presenting reality--I often don't care very much for aspects of the reality, but better to grasp it as it is than to fantasize that it is something else. He has a sense of both the power of and the limits of statistics and polling that is very useful.

[tips up]

I read his book. Quite interesting, looking at predictions of weather, sports, and a bunch of other things.

[ExCTCitizen]

I'm wondering is the P in ESPN is 'POLITICS'. Keith came back, now him?

yes, I know the P stands for 'Programming'.

Does anyone know what the E stands for? (I know. )

[Buckeye McFrog]

E xtreme
S ocialist
P olitical
N etwork

[LibLieSlayer]

Is nate gay??? I know he isn’t black so.........

[Arthurio]

He knows the Democraps are going to get massacred in 2014 so is getting out of dodge while he still can.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Good for him. Politics is so toxic that he’s probably going to be a lot happier doing this.

[Colonel_Flagg]

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