Nate Silver, FiveThirtyEight Founder, Expects to Depart ABC News Amid Layoffs
Nate Silver, the founder and editor of the data-driven news site FiveThirtyEight, said on Tuesday that he expected to leave ABC News as layoffs rattle its parent organization, the Walt Disney Company.
Mr. Silver, who started FiveThirtyEight in 2008, and was affiliated with The New York Times from 2010 to 2013, said on Twitter that the Disney layoffs had “substantially impacted” the site.
“I am sad and disappointed to a degree that’s kind of hard to express right now. We’ve been at Disney almost 10 years,” he wrote. “My contract is up soon and I expect that I’ll be leaving at the end of it.”
Mr. Silver noted that he had begun having conversations about other opportunities, because he had been worried about “an outcome like this.”
Source: The New York Times
