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Silver on ABC: “They have limited rights to some models post–license term, but not the core election forecast stuff.”
The outcomes confirmed anew that election polling is an uneven and high-risk pursuit.
Forecasts once again substantially underestimated the extent of support for Trump. But does that mean they failed?
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.
“We screwed up,” The Correspondent said in a tweeted statement.
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.
“Mobile is everything,” says Chad Millman, ESPN’s vice president and editorial director for domestic digital content.
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?
Plus: The Upshot and the explanatory journalism wave, Slate’s new membership model, and the rest of the week’s journalism and tech news.