{"id":1824025,"date":"2023-01-25T16:50:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824025"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:51:31","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:51:31","slug":"abc-puts-nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight-on-the-chopping-block-amid-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abc-puts-nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight-on-the-chopping-block-amid-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"ABC Puts Nate Silver&#8217;s &#8220;FiveThirtyEight&#8221; on the Chopping Block Amid Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fabc-puts-nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight-on-the-chopping-block-amid-budget-cuts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1824025&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/original_natesilver.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>                FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver\u2019s data analysis site, is &#8220;on the chopping block&#8221; As <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/bidens-doj-to-prosecute-abc-news-investigative-journalist-following-fbi-raid\">ABC News<\/a> According to a new report, the government is looking at budget cuts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elink.thedailybeast.com\/view\/597f534c1acbcd1d208b4f98i27uc.5es\/58bf4bfd\">The Daily Beast\u2019s Confider newsletter reported<\/a> Monday, the executives of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/disney-earnings-call-over-50-of-disney-subscribers-are-adults-without-kids\">Disney-owned<\/a> outlet are expected to make a decision on the future of FiveThirtyEight by the time Silver\u2019s contract expires in the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Citing sources with knowledge of the situation, the outlet said FiveThirtyEight\u2019s performance is under review by <a href=\"https:\/\/thepostmillennial.com\/missing-abc-producer-spotted-for-first-time-in-months-after-fbi-raid\">ABC News<\/a> Kimberly Godwin, president of ABC, could attempt to &#8220;offload&#8221; This site.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company, data analysis sites have never made a profit. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/other\/nate-silver-s-fivethirtyeight-on-the-chopping-block-at-abc-news-report\/ar-AA16HqlZ\">The New York Post<\/a>, and was unsuccessful in filling the vacancies left by top talent, including the sports editor, politics editor and managing editor.<\/p>\n<p>FiveThirtyEight was founded by Silver in 2008. The site posts data-focused content and analysis of business, politics, and sports as well as Silver\u2019s election polls.<\/p>\n<p>After an exchange of assets, the site is now under control of ABC News. According to The Daily Beast, there have been several. &#8220;lack of enthusiasm&#8221; ABC will adopt a subscription-based model to increase its profitability.<\/p>\n<p>Silver had discussed the possibility of selling the site to The Atlantic in 2017 and The Athletic in 2017. The Daily Beast reported that Silver is facing financial difficulties. &#8220;public criticism&#8221; after his site\u2019s prediction of a &#8220;red wave&#8221; In the 2022 midterm elections, it was incorrect.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for ABC News told The New York Post &#8220;There are no imminent decisions about our relationship with 538.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FiveThirtyEight, Nate Silver\u2019s data analysis site, is &#8220;on the chopping block&#8221; As ABC News According to a new report, the government is looking at budget cuts. The Daily Beast\u2019s Confider newsletter reported Monday, the executives of the Disney-owned outlet are expected to make a decision on the future of FiveThirtyEight by the time Silver\u2019s contract &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1824028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[16476,7261,4728,4463,14075,3862,12629,16475],"class_list":["post-1824025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-fivethirtyeight","tag-abc","tag-block","tag-budget","tag-chopping","tag-cuts","tag-nate","tag-silvers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1824025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1824025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1824025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1824025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1824025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}