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Political Poll News Site 538 to Close Amid Larger Shuttering Across ABC and Disney

posted by hubie on Wednesday March 12, @04:50AM   Printer-friendly

upstart writes:

Disney is reportedly cutting staff across ABC News Group and its entertainment network as media layoffs continue:

The popular political poll news and analysis website, 538, is being shut down as part of a broader shuttering effort across ABC News and Disney Entertainment, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday night.

Disney is reportedly cutting 200 positions across ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks, including shutting down the data-driven 538.

[...] FiveThirtyEight, which is named after the number of electors in the US electoral college, has become a popular website for predictions, analysis and watching the polls in the months and days leading up to election night.

But the website's workforce had been slowly dwindling for a couple of years. The 15 employees still with the outlet make up less than half of the team from 2023, when it had about 35 employees.

The decline began when 538's founder, Nate Silver, left the company two years ago when his Disney contract expired.

[...] The broader media landscape has been hit with mass layoffs seemingly nonstop for months. Last month, MSNBC announced a massive shakeup at the network that included letting go of Joy Reid and her production team, as well as no longer using the Spanish-language network Telemundo.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by HeadlineEditor on Wednesday March 12, @12:29PM (3 children)

    by HeadlineEditor (43479) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday March 12, @12:29PM (#1396132)

    You mean like Ukraine?

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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12, @02:50PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 12, @02:50PM (#1396138)

    So is it just Ukraine that bothers you or are there others? If you are going to be a complete tool, might as well let everyone know now so we can ignore your nifty handle.

  • (Score: 3, Informative) by ewk on Thursday March 13, @07:42AM

    by ewk (5923) on Thursday March 13, @07:42AM (#1396211)

    The (current, temporary) lack of elections in Ukraine is totally in line with the Ukrainian Constitution.
    They have this little thingy called 'invasion by Russia' going on.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by EEMac on Thursday March 13, @01:21PM

    by EEMac (6423) on Thursday March 13, @01:21PM (#1396237)

    And Romania [cnn.com]?