Nate Silver, Clare Malone and Galen Druke will host “Still Counting,” a nonpartisan politics show — on a decidedly partisan podcast network.
FiveThirtyEight, the politics site and podcast known for deep dives on statistical predictions, was shuttered last year after a series of layoffs and strategy shifts by its corporate owner.
Now, the people behind its popular flagship podcast — Nate Silver, Clare Malone and Galen Druke — are betting they can resurrect its spirit with a new show called “Still Counting.”
The three hosts want the podcast to be just as nonpartisan and empirical as its forebear, as they cover the 2026 midterm elections and new topics like the role of artificial intelligence and prediction markets in politics.
But they’re starting over under the umbrella of an unabashedly progressive media company started by three Obama administration veterans, Crooked Media. FiveThirtyEight was previously licensed or owned by major traditional media brands including The New York Times, ESPN and ABC News.
They say they are confident the show will work even under the new owners.
“There is a market for people who think politics is important, are intellectually interested in it and think it’s high stakes, but don’t want things filtered through a partisan lens,” Mr. Silver said. “That’s one of our markets.”
And they are hoping that their audience, built up over years, will follow them to the new venture, in the latest test of whether the star power in journalism now lies more with individual personalities or with the institutions they worked for.
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