Political data site FiveThirtyEight being shuttered amid sweeping ABC News layoffs [View all]

Source: The Independent

Wednesday 05 March 2025 16:21 GMT


FiveThirtyEight, the influential political data site first launched by stats guru Nate Silver in 2008, is being shut down amid sweeping layoffs being enacted by Disney across ABC News and Disney Entertainment Networks, a source familiar with the matter told The Independent.

The job cuts, which were announced to staff on Wednesday, will impact roughly 200 employees and represent about six percent of the total workforce across ABC News Group and Disney Entertainment Networks. The majority of the layoffs are at ABC News, with most impacted employees based in New York.

Representatives for ABC News and Disney declined to comment. The Wall Street Journal and Status News first reported on the looming layoffs.

Besides the shuttering of FiveThirtyEight, which will result in the elimination of about 15 jobs across the news site, ABC is also consolidating some of its other programming that will lead to reduced staff. The news magazine shows 20/20 and Nightline, along with other long-form programming, will now fall under one leadership unit. The shows first aired in 1978 and 1980 respectively.

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