The Upshot

{{short description|Website published by the New York Times}} {{DISPLAYTITLE:''The Upshot''}} {{distinguish|Upshot}} '''''The Upshot''''' is a website published by ''[[The New York Times]]'' which releases 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>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/22/upshot/upshot-at-five-years.html,%20https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/22/upshot/upshot-at-five-years.html |title=The Upshot, Five Years In |last=Staff |first=The Upshot |date=2019-04-22 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-11-24 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> [[Steve Duenes]], a graphics director at the ''New York Times'', won a newsroom contest by coming up with the name "The Upshot".<ref name="Sherman">{{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/times-upshot |title=42. Because Even a 163-Year-Old Institution Can Learn New Tricks |last=Sherman |first=Gabriel |date=2014-12-14 |work=New York Magazine |access-date=2019-11-24}}</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">{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/22/new-york-times-launches-data-journalism-site-the-upshot |title=New York Times launches data journalism site The Upshot |last=Gil |first=Natalie |date=2014-04-22 |work=The Guardian |access-date=2019-11-24 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://qz.com/185922/the-upshot-is-the-new-york-times-replacement-for-nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight/ |title="The Upshot" is the New York Times' replacement for Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight |last=McDuling |first=John |date=2014-03-10 |work=Quartz |access-date=2019-11-24 |language=en}}</ref> However, Leonhardt stated in an April 2014 interview that ''The Upshot'' was not intended to replace Silver.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/qa-david-leonhardt-says-the-upshot-wont-replace-nate-silver-at-the-new-york-times/ |title=Q&A: David Leonhardt says The Upshot won't replace Nate Silver at The New York Times |last=O'Donovan |first=Caroline |date=2014-04-23 |work=Nieman Lab |access-date=2019-11-24}}</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 name="Sherman"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/3040817/the-upshot-where-the-new-york-times-is-redesigning-news |title=The Upshot: Where The New York Times Is Redesigning News |last=Wilson |first=Mark |date=2015-01-20 |access-date=2019-11-24 |language=en-US}}</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>{{Cite web |url=https://awards.journalists.org/winners/2014/ |title=2014 Online Journalism Awards Winners |website=Online Journalism Awards |language=en-US |access-date=2019-11-24}}</ref> In 2016, [[Amanda Cox]], who had been a founding member of ''The Upshot'', replaced Leonhardt as its editor.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/reader-center/data-visualization-editor-amanda-cox.html |title=Meet Amanda Cox, Who Brings Life to Data on Our Pages |last=Lucas |first=Jake |date=2019-02-28 |work=The New York Times |access-date=2019-11-24 |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

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==External links== * {{Official website|https://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot}}

[[Category:The New York Times publications|Upshot]] [[Category:Internet properties established in 2014]] [[Category:American news websites]] [[Category:2014 establishments in New York City]] [[Category:Data journalism]]