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'NY Times' Debuts 'Explanatory' Experiment, The Upshot

  • Gigaom, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 11:54 AM
With the goal of reducing complex stories to their simplest form, The New York Times just debuted The Upshot. “The idea [behind the new site] is to give readers some help in understanding complex stories like Obamacare,” GigaOm reports. “Ever since Nate Silver left … the NYT has been working on a new venture aimed in part at filling the hole he left, and also at competing with the ‘explanatory journalism’ of Ezra Klein’s recently launched Vox project.”
 

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