FiveThirtyEight's Demise and the Rise of Silver Bulletin
2025-03-06
Following Disney's layoffs impacting FiveThirtyEight, the author reflects on the site's history and challenges. While acknowledging FiveThirtyEight's success in data journalism, the author points to a lack of business strategy and sufficient personnel as contributing factors to its struggles. The author's new venture, Silver Bulletin, aims to continue some of FiveThirtyEight's work, particularly in publicly releasing polling data and enhancing data analysis and forecasting models. Silver Bulletin will adopt a subscription model for sustainability and plans to expand its data analysis scope, including launching a Trump approval rating dashboard and college basketball predictions.