The New York Times’ Needle lives: The newspaper’s popular election-prediction gauge made its return on Tuesday night — despite the ongoing strike called Monday by the union representing tech employees at the paper. The NY Times’ Needle, first introduced in 2016, estimates the final outcome of an election based on partial election results. As more […]

Hundreds of employees of the New York Times represented by The Times Tech Guild — the union affiliated with the NewsGuild of New York that manages the technology behind the newspaper’s election coverage, among other things — have gone on strike one day before the 2024 U.S. elections. The Times Tech Guild represents more than […]