Meet Nate Cohn, New York Times' New Young Gun on Data

By: Joe Pompeo | Capital New York

When The New York Times lost statistics star Nate Silver and his high-traffic 538 franchise to ESPN in July 2013, it found a way to fill the void by assembling a data-driven politics and policy brand called The Upshot, which launched as a website and print component the following April. In doing so, the Times also found another Nate (last name Cohn), a precocious numbers-cruncher and polling whiz who has emerged as the new face of election analysis for the paper of record, as well as one of the latest players in a growing brood of wonksters (see also Steve Kornacki, Ezra Klein, etc.) who’ve brought some new fire to the nerd-media genre.