List of media sources that explains who owns and runs them for the elections.

It's going to take a bit of time. Please bear with me through the process.

🔺 Publicly traded

🔺💲 Publicly traded but mostly privately owned

💲 Privately owned

🔷 Non for profit and/or trust ran by board of directors (Note: I suggest taking a long look at who the board of directors are, especially AP and NPR)

There are a lot of Brits running a lot of American (or thought to be American) media groups, I'm going to include quite a few British publications. There is also an American on the BBC board.

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🔺 538:
◾ Owned by ESPN & ABC(?) which is owned by Disney
When ESPN started in 1979 we were the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (thus, ESPN). However, that name took too long to paint across our chests on game day, so we dropped it in 1985 and adopted a new corporate name -- ESPN, Inc.-- and a new logo. And by the way, we're a subsidiary of ABC, Inc., which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co. Also, the Hearst Corporation has a 20% interest in ESPN.
Founder Nate Silver left in 2023, taking the rights to his forecasting model with him to his website Silver Bulletin.
Source
Nate Silver joins prediction market Polymarket as advisor
Polymarket Raises $70m From Thiel’s Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Vitalik Buterin to Scale Global Prediction Market
◾ CEO is G. Elliott Morris
American data journalist who is best known for his work on election polling and predictive analytics. From 2018 to 2023, Morris was a data journalist for The Economist. In 2023, he became the editorial director of data analytics at ABC News including FiveThirtyEight.
Ed note: It is unclear as to who the board is or if ESPN or ABC actually run it. Maybe both?

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