Nate Silver’s FiveThirtyEight will partner with NPR’s On the Media through the 2016 election. The central question they will address is, “how
does the media narrative stack up against what we know to actually be true?”
Combing through false narratives and looking at the involved relationship between politics and the media, the
partnership offers an opportunity for in depth analyses of how media affects campaigns. Nate Silver kick-started the relationship with a conversation about whether increased media coverage results in
higher polls, or if success in the polls precedes rising media coverage.