Chadwick Matlin

The best thing about a Twitter sabbatical is knowing it doesn't matter if you ever come back.

We're starting something new at @business. Pointed, our new weekly news quiz, is a mashup of pub trivia, Learned League, and your neighborhood poker game. A news quiz that tests your strategy, not just your recall. bloomberg.com/games/pointed

It was a noble experiment, and one that succeeded in spite of ABC News's limited imagination for it. Today's closure shouldn't -- and doesn't -- change that.

I spent nine years there (and was laid off two years ago). We had plenty of warts, but our mission wasn't one of them: Evidence-based journalism that embraced uncertainty. We tried to make lasting work even as we updated our assumptions. No place like it.

FiveThirtyEight -- which is reportedly being shuttered today -- was more than a data repository. It was the launchpad for hundreds of careers, and its journalistic principles have suffused places big and small in the past 11 years.

God it's dusty in here. Shaking off the cobwebs to say that I, too, have started a newsletter. It's not about the news! It's called Writ Small, and it's about the best in kids' media. Weekly, essayistic, free. First one is up: open.substack.com/pub/writsmall/… Subscribe as you see fit!

@fstonenyc Many thanks, David!

@ChadwickMatlin ABC loses one of the best long-form feature editors in the business. So sorry, Chad. I hope you're able to continue doing great work soon.

I've spent 9.5 years at FiveThirtyEight, but won't make it 10. I was laid off today as part of Disney's cuts. My colleagues and I built a website out of nothing, and journalism changed because of it. There are worse legacies. More reflections to come once things shake out.

@dhopkins1776 Thanks, Dan! Very happy you wandered into our office in the early days and amazed you stuck with us!

@ChadwickMatlin Oh man, so sorry to hear that. Even as an occasional freelancer, I learned so much from you at the site, and am so deeply grateful for your inspired, tireless work.

@tyschalter Ty, you've been writing for us since the early days! Been a pleasure.

@ChadwickMatlin “Sorry to hear” doesn’t begin to cover it, of course—but congrats on an incredible run, and so many lasting achievements.

@rembert Thanks, bud. Let's take an Amtrak to Connecticut to hear Jason Whitlock say some weird stuff again some day.

@ChadwickMatlin you did good

What do you do when you have basically become a minor deity to a species of butterfly that relies on you to guide its life across generations — and the damn thing won’t be fruitful and multiply? fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-b…

When I blab about the potential of data-driven feature journalism, this @maggiekb1 feature is what I am talking about. About one endangered butterfly, and what it can teach us about finding hope in climate uncertainty. fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-b…

We've been so busy live blogging that I haven't had a chance to say my extraordinarily talented colleagues are live blogging: fivethirtyeight.com/live-blog/2022…

Set your clocks -- and anxiety-levels -- accordingly. projects.fivethirtyeight.com/when-election-…

New data, exclusively shared with @FiveThirtyEight, indicates that at least 10,000 women were unable to get an abortion in July and August because of Dobbs. fivethirtyeight.com/features/overt…

The Pelosi assault has me thinking back to this @maggiekb1 @ameliatd piece from last year on our radicalized republic: fivethirtyeight.com/features/our-r…

We used news reports, debate footage, campaign materials, social media & contacted every single GOP nominee for the House, Senate, governor, secretary of state and attorney general to determine their position on the 2020 election. Here's what we found: projects.fivethirtyeight.com/republicans-tr…

@iccian15 Fixed! Thank you! Truly bizarre. I don't even have that file anymore.

@ChadwickMatlin The panic city episode released today is from 2017.