The Upshot is a website published byThe New York Times which releases articles combiningdata visualization with conventional journalistic analysis of news.[1]
The Upshot was first announced in March 2014 and was officially launched on April 22, 2014.[1][2]Steve Duenes, a graphics director at theNew 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 editorDavid Leonhardt. BecauseThe Upshot was launched soon afterNate Silver andFiveThirtyEight left theTimes, it was widely described as a planned replacement forFiveThirtyEight and Silver.[1][4] However, Leonhardt stated in an April 2014 interview thatThe Upshot was not intended to replace Silver.[5] In 2014,The Upshot produced two of the twenty most-read stories on theTimes' 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 anOnline Journalism Award in the category "Online Commentary, Large Newsroom", but it lost toNPR'sCode Switch.[7] In 2016,Amanda Cox, who had been a founding member ofThe Upshot, replaced Leonhardt as its editor.[8]
