The breadth of our coverage will be much clearer at this new version of FiveThirtyEight, which is launching Monday under the auspices of ESPN. We’ve expanded our staff from two full-time journalists to 20 and counting. Few of them will focus on politics exclusively; instead, our coverage will span five major subject areas — politics, economics, science, life and sports.
What I like about this particular post (go read it all, seriously), is the level of humility Silver expresses. A lot of people can, and do, do the math and follow the predictive approaches he espouses. But putting it to the principled service of informing The Public, within the current dynamic of Internet social media, is innovative. Computer Assisted Reporting was just a precursor. As a recovering new media hack I can appreciate all the roots of this iteration of his work.
Plus, I love this attitude:
It’s time for us to start making the news a little nerdier.