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Re:FiveThirtyEight relaunches by ProAm on Monday March 17, 2014 @12:55PM (#7416287)
I thought the NY Times bought/owned the fivethirtyeight brand?
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Re:FiveThirtyEight relaunches by danso on Monday March 17, 2014 @12:57PM (#7416309)
They parted ways last summer, purportedly because the new NYT CEO did not think much of his non-politics-season value:

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/5-takeaways-york-magazines-profile-...

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Re:FiveThirtyEight relaunches by jdlshore on Monday March 17, 2014 @01:05PM (#7416365)
They had it for a while, but either Silver bought it back, or it was a time-limited license. Fivethirtyeight is affiliated with ESPN now.
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