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The Upshot
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'''''The Upshot''''' is a website published by ''[[the New York Times]]'' which publishes articles combining [[data visualization]] with conventional journalistic analysis of news.<ref name="guardian"/>
==History==
''The Upshot'' was first announced in March 2014 and was officially launched on April 22, 2014.<ref name="guardian"/><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> [[Steve Duenes]], a graphics director at the ''New York Times'', won a newsroom contest by coming up with the name "The Upshot".<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> The site started with fifteen full-time staff, including founding editor [[David Leonhardt]]. Because the Upshot was launched soon after [[Nate Silver]] and [[FiveThirtyEight]] left the ''Times'', it was widely described as a planned replacement for FiveThirtyEight and Silver.<ref name="guardian">Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> However, Leonhardt stated in an April 2014 interview that the Upshot was not intended to replace Silver.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> In 2014, ''the Upshot'' produced two of the twenty most-read stories on the ''Times'' website, and it was responsible for 5% of the paper's web traffic in October of that year.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref><ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Also in 2014, the site was a finalist for an [[Online Journalism Award]] in the category "Online Commentary, Large Newsroom", but it lost to ''[[NPR]]''s [[Code Switch]].<ref></ref> In 2016, [[Amanda Cox]], who had been a founding member of ''the Upshot'', replaced Leonhardt as its editor.<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref>
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[[Category:The New York Times]]
[[Category:Internet properties established in 2014]]
[[Category:American news websites]]
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