Confider #92: You Read It Here First!
We here at Confider bring you saucy scooplets every week. We’d like to ring in 2024 by looking back on some of our favorite scoops that had certified impact over the past year. Tell all your friends: You read it here first!
—THE SILVER BULLET: In January, we reported that stats guru Nate Silver was on the chopping block at ABC News as Disney overlords looked to cut costs, and that the future of his website, FiveThirtyEight, was under review. Four months later, Silver announced his exit from ABC, but the Mouse House-owned network decided to keep the famed politics, economics, and sports analysis website—although in a heavily pared-down state that resulted in more job losses. Read the full Confider scoop here.
—POLITICO FRACAS: Confider first broke the news in February that Dafna Linzer, Politico’s executive editor, left a congressional reporter in tears at the outlet’s 118th Congress kickoff event, publicly berating her in front of colleagues and top lawmakers over the rising star journo’s decision to defect to a rival publication. According to our sources, Linzer questioned the reporter’s judgment to jump ship and made disparaging remarks about her new employer, The Washington Post. By March 9, Linzer was out at Politico. Read the full story here.