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Ben Welsh made an index of all FiveThirtyEight articles on the Internet Archive (fivethirtyeightindex.com)
defrost 9 minutes ago [-]
For any, like myself, wondering "Who is Ben Welsh" ?

  Hello. My name is Ben Welsh. I'm an Iowan living in New York City.

  I am a reporter, an editor and a computer programmer. My job is to use those skills, together, to find and tell stories.

  I work at Reuters, the world's largest multimedia news provider, where I founded the organization's News Applications Desk. In that role, I lead the development of dashboards, databases and automated systems that benefit clients, inform readers, empower reporters and serve the public interest.

  [...]
~ https://palewi.re/who-is-ben-welsh/
yogorenapan 5 minutes ago [-]
Can't believe Ben Welsh is not Welsh, and FiveThirtyEight has nothing to do with Wales
nomilk 12 minutes ago [-]
Couldn't figure out why archiving FTE aricles matters, but a quick search yields:

> Thousands of FiveThirtyEight articles seemingly vanish from the internet

https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/thousands-of-five...

And discussions here on hn:

ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152553

Disney erased FiveThirtyEight (article by Nate himself) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48197703

nl 26 minutes ago [-]
This is because whoever owns Fivethirtyeight now (ABC?) deleted the whole archive of articles on the site.
Avicebron 15 minutes ago [-]
Bourdieu. The field has structure, the structure has logics, the logics shape what counts as a publishable story, a promotable journalist, a credible source, a "balanced framing".
ChocMontePy 2 hours ago [-]
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