Oliver Roeder
I am a journalist at the Financial Times, based in New York.
I lead the paper’s US data journalism desk and write for FT Weekend Magazine.
Previously I was a Nieman fellow at Harvard and a senior writer at FiveThirtyEight. I did a PhD in economics with a focus on game theory.
Books
- Seven Games: A Human History* WW Norton (Excerpts: chess, backgammon, poker, Scrabble)
- The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight WW Norton
* New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice; Silvers Grant, Robert B Silvers Foundation
New York Times crosswords
Magazine cover stories
- An issue on the impermanence of maps with Jana Tauschinski & Alan Smith
- Power, AI and birds in the Nevada desert
- The final secret of an ageing cryptosculptor
- The Colorado laser labs redefining the second
- An archival deep-space rescue mission
- Geometric land battles on a Wyoming mountain
- Algorithmic syndicates conquering horse-betting
- Legal fights over a ‘truth machine’
- Building the world’s tallest flagpole in Maine
- Elite chess in Spain in wartime
Some other features
- Lunch with Tarek Mansour, Kalshi founder
- Notes from the transit underground with Sam Learner
- Lunch with Hans Niemann, chess grandmaster
- The problem with polling
- The sound of a dying planet
- Crossword gods in Connecticut
- Lost and afraid in the metaverse
- The final triumph of Dr. Fill Slate
- Playing chess with Magnus Carlsen FiveThirtyEight
- The darkest town in America FiveThirtyEight
- A crossword plagiarism scandal* FiveThirtyEight
* Finalist, Data Journalism Awards, Investigation of the Year