This chapter charts the beginning of extant news organizations’ experimentation with and evaluation of news nerds. Drawing again on analysis of both interviews and industry documents, this chapter focuses primarily on changes from within the industry. Here again, the chapter turns to the case study of journalist employment networks, which helps shed light on several of these patterns through a quantified statistical perspective. The case study specifically allows for comparisons between legacy news organizations and new entrants (e.g., at the time, digital-native news organizations) and capitalizes on the differences between their hiring practices of news nerds to better understand the role of factors such as extant organizational experimentation in institutional change over time.