# The Upshot

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Website published by the New York Times

Not to be confused with [Upshot](/source/Upshot).

***The Upshot*** is a website published by *[The New York Times](/source/The_New_York_Times)* which releases articles combining [data visualization](/source/Data_visualization) with conventional journalistic analysis of news.[1]

## History

*The Upshot* was first announced in March 2014 and was officially launched on April 22, 2014.[1][2] [Steve Duenes](/source/Steve_Duenes), a graphics director at the *New York Times*, won a newsroom contest by coming up with the name "The Upshot".[3] The site started with fifteen full-time staff, including founding editor [David Leonhardt](/source/David_Leonhardt). Because *The Upshot* was launched soon after [Nate Silver](/source/Nate_Silver) and *[FiveThirtyEight](/source/FiveThirtyEight)* left the *Times*, it was widely described as a planned replacement for *FiveThirtyEight* and Silver.[1][4] However, Leonhardt stated in an April 2014 interview that *The Upshot* was not intended to replace Silver.[5] 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.[3][6] Also in 2014, the site was a finalist for an [Online Journalism Award](/source/Online_Journalism_Award) in the category "Online Commentary, Large Newsroom", but it lost to [NPR](/source/NPR)'s *[Code Switch](/source/Code_Switch)*.[7] In 2016, [Amanda Cox](/source/Amanda_Cox), who had been a founding member of *The Upshot*, replaced Leonhardt as its editor.[8]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-guardian_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-guardian_1-1) [***c***](#cite_ref-guardian_1-2) Gil, Natalie (2014-04-22). ["New York Times launches data journalism site The Upshot"](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/apr/22/new-york-times-launches-data-journalism-site-the-upshot). *The Guardian*. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0261-3077](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077). Retrieved 2019-11-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Staff, The Upshot (2019-04-22). ["The Upshot, Five Years In"](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). *The New York Times*. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2019-11-24.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Sherman_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Sherman_3-1) Sherman, Gabriel (2014-12-14). ["42. Because Even a 163-Year-Old Institution Can Learn New Tricks"](https://nymag.com/news/articles/reasonstoloveny/2014/times-upshot). *New York Magazine*. Retrieved 2019-11-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** McDuling, John (2014-03-10). [""The Upshot" is the New York Times' replacement for Nate Silver's FiveThirtyEight"](https://qz.com/185922/the-upshot-is-the-new-york-times-replacement-for-nate-silvers-fivethirtyeight/). *Quartz*. Retrieved 2019-11-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** O'Donovan, Caroline (2014-04-23). ["Q&A: David Leonhardt says The Upshot won't replace Nate Silver at The New York Times"](https://www.niemanlab.org/2014/04/qa-david-leonhardt-says-the-upshot-wont-replace-nate-silver-at-the-new-york-times/). *Nieman Lab*. Retrieved 2019-11-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** Wilson, Mark (2015-01-20). ["The Upshot: Where The New York Times Is Redesigning News"](https://www.fastcompany.com/3040817/the-upshot-where-the-new-york-times-is-redesigning-news). Retrieved 2019-11-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["2014 Online Journalism Awards Winners"](https://awards.journalists.org/winners/2014/). *Online Journalism Awards*. Retrieved 2019-11-24.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** Lucas, Jake (2019-02-28). ["Meet Amanda Cox, Who Brings Life to Data on Our Pages"](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/reader-center/data-visualization-editor-amanda-cox.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN](/source/ISSN_(identifier)) [0362-4331](https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2019-11-24.

## External links

- [Official website](https://www.nytimes.com/section/upshot)

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