If the Old Gray Lady (#NewYorkTimes) is going to survive it needs to stop hemorrhaging talent like Nate...

If the Old Gray Lady (#NewYorkTimes) is going to survive it needs to stop hemorrhaging talent like Nate Silver and get itself back out from behind its paywall and start leveraging its reputation. FiveThirtyEight might be a blog, but when a blog accounts for over 20% of NYT traffic, you need to refocus--or, in the terminology of a bygone Microsoft, embrace and extend.

The statistician who writes the FiveThirtyEight blog for The New York Times is said to be moving that franchise to ESPN.

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