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Nate Silver of FiveThirtyEight Blog Is to Join ESPN Staff
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: July 19, 2013

Nate Silver, the statistician who attained national fame for his accurate projections about the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections, is parting ways with The New York Times and moving his FiveThirtyEight franchise to ESPN, the sports empire controlled by the Walt Disney Company, according to ESPN employees with direct knowledge of his plans. Moar