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We’re Hiring A Senior Visual Journalist

FiveThirtyEight is seeking a kind, collaborative and creative Senior Visual Journalist to join our Interactives and Graphics team. Senior Visual Journalists are design leaders in the FiveThirtyEight newsroom. Though they serve primarily as individual contributors, they also amplify the work of the team by mentoring more junior visual journalists, thoughtfully giving and receiving feedback and […]

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We Don’t Talk Enough About Nikola Jokić’s Scoring

Here is as satisfying a highlight as this NBA season will produce: That’s reigning MVP Nikola Jokić of the Denver Nuggets giving the business to Sacramento’s Damian Jones earlier this month. Like most of the Serbian center’s best plays, it begs for metaphor — a boulder running a slalom course, maybe — but the bare-bones […]

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How Colorblind NHL Players See The Game

When Seattle Kraken goalie Philipp Grubauer was preparing for his first physical with the new franchise, there was one step he could skip. While everyone else on the team was taking their vision tests, he finished early. The German goaltender has color vision deficiency, more commonly known as colorblindness, and he’s known that since he […]

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Should We Expect More Madness In The Women’s Sweet 16?

Well, that was unexpected. Perennial powers Iowa, Oregon and Baylor lost. Other mainstays, like Tennessee and Indiana, were pushed to the brink. It’s made for the Maddest March ever in women’s basketball history, with just three of the eight Sweet 16 matchups featuring the chalk of 1-4 or 3-2 seeds expected to match up in […]

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