There’s good evidence that some people find predictive models like FiveThirtyEight’s confusing, and an argument that they might keep people from voting. But 2016’s scars shouldn’t mean that voters have to be kept in the dark.
Ad-free, member-funded, and Dutch: The team behind the breakout success De Correspondent is translating its ideas into English (and Judd Apatow is on board).
The press is, at its best, the strong and steady hand at keeping the public informed. No surprise, it is the twin Watergate-tested news institutions of The New York Times and The Washington Post that continue to lead that informing.
When people talk about explanatory journalism, the focus is on new players like Vox and FiveThirtyEight, or on giants like the Times and the Post. But can connecting the dots trickle down to the local level?
“Is there a way to take some of the knowledge that people at The New York Times already have that ends up on the cutting room floor, and put it in front of readers?”
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Q&A: David Leonhardt says The Upshot won’t replace Nate Silver at The New York Times." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 23 Apr. 2014. Web. 25 Mar. 2023.
APA
O'Donovan, C. (2014, Apr. 23). Q&A: David Leonhardt says The Upshot won’t replace Nate Silver at The New York Times. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/qa-david-leonhardt-says-the-upshot-wont-replace-nate-silver-at-the-new-york-times/
Chicago
O'Donovan, Caroline. "Q&A: David Leonhardt says The Upshot won’t replace Nate Silver at The New York Times." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified April 23, 2014. Accessed March 25, 2023. https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/qa-david-leonhardt-says-the-upshot-wont-replace-nate-silver-at-the-new-york-times/.
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