Pollster Nate Silver’s data-driven politics and journalism brand FiveThirtyEight will be impacted by Disney’s new wave of layoffs, he wrote on Tuesday.
Silver wrote in a tweet, “Disney layoffs have substantially impacted FiveThirtyEight. I am sad and disappointed to a degree that’s kind of hard to express right now.”
Silver suggested in a Twitter post that he will be departing the company in the near future. “We’ve been at Disney almost 10 years. My contract is up soon and I expect that I’ll be leaving at the end of it,” he added.
“I had been worried about an outcome like this and so have had some great initial conversations about opportunities elsewhere,” he continued. “Don’t hesitate to get in touch. I am so proud of the work of FiveThirtyEight staff. It has never been easy. I’m so sorry to the people impacted by this.”…