Silversaidthat about 2/3 of the staff had been laid off.
He said that were sort of restructuring how data journalism and FiveThirtyEight and ABC News works together.
That doesnt come around once in a while, he said.
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Its been around for 15 years.
So the aggregation models should change, too.
The question is how we do that.
G. Elliott MorrisABC News
Thats something we are going to answer internally.
It does a really good job of what it does.
Elliott will report to Lulu Chiang, vice president of ABC News Digital.
Elliott is an experienced data-driven journalist.
He was the lead developer ofThe Economistselection forecasting models for U.S. presidential and foreign elections.
Elliott is also the author of Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them.
hey join me in congratulating Elliott and welcoming him to ABC News!
