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When it comes to elections, data journalism without context is noise

on November 4, 2014

Nate Silver and his ilk have proven they can predict elections with high accuracy, so maybe it’s time to move on from focusing on the forecasts. I know Republicans will likely control Congress come January, but now I need to know what that means.

The Upshot vs. Vox vs. FiveThirtyEight: A hands-on review of explanatory journalism

on April 22, 2014

With the launch of The Upshot from the New York Times, there are now three major sites going after the “explanatory journalism” market. Each has its own unique flavor, but is the market for that kind of content really large enough to support that many sites?

Here comes The Upshot, the new explanatory journalism effort from the New York Times

on April 21, 2014

The New York Times is launching The Upshot, a new site that its editor says will offer a combination of data journalism and explanatory reporting — and also try to go head-to-head with new high-profile projects like Ezra Klein’s Vox and Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight

Three good things about Ezra Klein’s new site Vox, plus three challenges that it faces

on April 7, 2014

Vox, the new explanatory journalism site from former Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein, launched on Sunday and it does many things well — including a design based on information “cards” that looks good on a mobile device. But it faces some significant challenges

Before the “explanatory journalism” craze started to catch fire, there was Syria Deeply

on March 24, 2014

Lara Setrakian, a former foreign correspondent for ABC News, started Syria Deeply because she believed that a news site focused on a specific topic would fill a need in the journalism marketplace — and she is planning to expand that idea with other sites like Arctic Deeply

Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight site launches, but can his data-driven journalism find a market?

on March 17, 2014

Former New York Times blogger Nate Silver launched his new data-driven site FiveThirtyEight on Monday morning, but can he find a broad enough — and deep enough — market for the kind of number-oriented explanatory journalism he wants to focus on?

Why the rise of sites devoted to explanatory journalism is a trend worth celebrating

on February 28, 2014

An increasing number of new-media startups — and even new projects by existing media outlets — are aimed at bringing context, background and analysis to the news instead of just trying to be the first to report something, and that’s a very beneficial development

More pictures, less policy: Ezra Klein’s Wonkblog launches viral site Know More

on October 7, 2013

Ezra Klein and the team behind the popular politics blog Wonkblog just launched a viral site called Know More. It’s “an effort to break the slow web into parts that work for the social web,” Klein says.

Nate Silver to would-be data scientists: Don’t sweat the degree, just do the work

on September 30, 2013

Would-be data scientists should work with data up close rather than book learning, says TheFiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver. Although a stats course won’t hurt.

Nate Silver: Expect long-form content, not real-time analysis, at ESPN

on August 22, 2013

Super data analyst Nate Silver talks about his plans for the new-and-expanded FiveThirtyEight blog from ESPN. Anyone wanting Silver to run in with in-game analysis or predictions might be disappointed.

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