How ESPN and ABC landed Nate Silver

Found via The Big Picture.

If you were away from your screens this weekend, you may have missed Mike Allen's fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how ESPN and ABC News fought to lure data-whiz Nate Silver away from The New York Times. Because this all went down in Playbook, it'll be lost to the archives soon. It shouldn't be: Silver's hire is a huge boon to ESPN/ABC and a major blow to NYT, and Allen's reporting reveals just how hard the two news organizations fought for a prized possession.