Awful. I've been using the Flint Michigan article to teach my Rutgers students about investigative journalism, data, public policy and public trust for 9 years. If you can provide me a link to wherever it lives, I'll save it to a word document.
This was a wonderful read, thank you. As someone very much inspired by FiveThirtyEight and an avid follower, this confirmed a lot of what I knew.
Specifically, I really enjoyed the call outs for Clare Malone. She got hosed, and she is/was SUCH a powerful voice. She changed my mind on issues multiple times, and her perspective never felt forced in the way a lot of political commentary can be. She clashed with you Nate in profound ways, never afraid to back down from a point, but also never in a way to try and destroy your own credibility. It was kind, not always nice.
I really miss it, but I'm so glad you all get back together for podcasts.
I was a big fan of the sports reporting y'all did back then. (Yes, I do subscribe to Neil Paine's Substack now.) The fact that ABC cut that off first seems like a good indicator of how clueless they were.
FWIW Grantland archives are still live, one of the top stories is about a fledgling interim NFL coach named Dan Campbell, wonder if it ever worked out for that guy...
I know nothing about sports so this article is way over my head, but I’ve loved you since the early 538 days when I was hopeful that Trump wouldn’t win. I liked seeing any of your polling results that looked bad. I still like to read things by you because you are so self critical and smart that you seem trustworthy.
Thanks for the insights Nate. If it matters, you're not alone. I can offer analogies replacing FiveThirtyEight with independent Las Vegas casino hotel operators and replacing Disney with Wall Street investment firms. In the end, just be extremely proud and fortunate for the opportunities to exceed in a relatively new industry, and be confident that Silver Bulletin most likely wouldn't exist without those experiences, and only make you wiser for the future.
Poor Fivey Fox 😭
Rest in power, Fivey
Awful. I've been using the Flint Michigan article to teach my Rutgers students about investigative journalism, data, public policy and public trust for 9 years. If you can provide me a link to wherever it lives, I'll save it to a word document.
The Internet Archive Wayback machine has it cached for now. If you put the old link in there, you can get it and save it.
This was a wonderful read, thank you. As someone very much inspired by FiveThirtyEight and an avid follower, this confirmed a lot of what I knew.
Specifically, I really enjoyed the call outs for Clare Malone. She got hosed, and she is/was SUCH a powerful voice. She changed my mind on issues multiple times, and her perspective never felt forced in the way a lot of political commentary can be. She clashed with you Nate in profound ways, never afraid to back down from a point, but also never in a way to try and destroy your own credibility. It was kind, not always nice.
I really miss it, but I'm so glad you all get back together for podcasts.
That Fivey Fox erasure gif is super bleak lol
That last nugget, truly a silber lining that ties a bow on the whole thing.
I've been reading religiously since the DKos days, and I'd have been happy to pay for it since day one, even on a grad student's stipend. RIP, Fivey.
Nate, my heart goes out to you. I am so terribly sorry - all your early amazing work, makes me want to weep.
That Nataniel bit is too funny
Lol, that ending though. 😂
Pretty well sums up the attention are care of corporate Disney.
I was a big fan of the sports reporting y'all did back then. (Yes, I do subscribe to Neil Paine's Substack now.) The fact that ABC cut that off first seems like a good indicator of how clueless they were.
Thanks for the long-promised history, Nataniel!
I really loved that burrito bracket. Ate close to a dozen of them. Was just at Spencer McKenzies in Ventura last weekend
and got a little wistful when i saw the FiveThirtyEight plaque on the wall.
FWIW Grantland archives are still live, one of the top stories is about a fledgling interim NFL coach named Dan Campbell, wonder if it ever worked out for that guy...
My face when I read that Grantland was killed off MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO...
I know nothing about sports so this article is way over my head, but I’ve loved you since the early 538 days when I was hopeful that Trump wouldn’t win. I liked seeing any of your polling results that looked bad. I still like to read things by you because you are so self critical and smart that you seem trustworthy.
Just FYI, the hyperlink on this text "wrote about FiveThirtyEight’s disappearance" goes to a story about shutting down Grantland
Thanks for the insights Nate. If it matters, you're not alone. I can offer analogies replacing FiveThirtyEight with independent Las Vegas casino hotel operators and replacing Disney with Wall Street investment firms. In the end, just be extremely proud and fortunate for the opportunities to exceed in a relatively new industry, and be confident that Silver Bulletin most likely wouldn't exist without those experiences, and only make you wiser for the future.
RIP FiveThirtyEight again. At least the internet archive preserved a lot of the articles, but this is just sad