Ben Smith: “ABC Information is scrambling to discover a substitute for Nate Silver’s election forecasting mannequin, which the 538 founder is taking with him when he leaves the information group on the finish of his contract.”
“In response to two sources with data of the state of affairs, ABC executives have been gradual to comprehend that the corporate solely owned among the fashions that 538 used to forecast main elections, and that many have been on hire from Silver as a part of the preliminary deal to carry the info journalism web site to ESPN ten years in the past.”
