EXCLUSIVE: ABC News is hiring The Economist’s G. Elliott Morris to be the editorial director of data analytics for the news division, a post that also oversees FiveThirtyEight.
Nate Silver, the founder of FiveThirtyEight, announced last month that he was leaving the network, amid a round of job cuts.
Silver said that about 2/3 of the staff had been laid off. Morris has been senior data journalist and U.S. correspondent for The Economist and was the lead developer of election forecasting models for U.S.
and foreign elections. In an interview with Deadline, Morris declined to address the staffing cuts, but suggested that there would be more integration of their work with the news division.
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