Oliver Roeder
I am a commissioning editor at FT Weekend Magazine, editing and writing long-form nonfiction.
Previously I led the Financial Times’ US data journalism desk.
Before that 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.
Selected work
Writing Magazine pieces, newspaper features, books
- Magazine pieces
- How to build a Yankee pyramid
- Americans ahead of an American World Cup
- Machines making machines in Morningside Heights
- An issue on the impermanence of maps with Alan Smith & Jana Tauschinski
- Notes from the transit underground with Sam Learner
- Power, AI and birds in the Nevada desert
- The final secret of an ageing cryptosculptor
- The Colorado laser labs redefining the second
- Last days of a lonely interstellar spacecraft
- Geometric land battles on a Wyoming mountain
- Algorithmic syndicates conquering horse-betting
- The sound of a dying planet
- Crossword gods in Connecticut
- Legal fights over a truth machine
- Building the world’s tallest flagpole in Maine
- Elite chess in Spain in wartime
- Lunch with the FT
- Tarek Mansour, Kalshi founder
- Hans Niemann, chess grandmaster
- Books
- Seven Games: A Human History WW Norton New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice; Silvers Grant, Robert B Silvers Foundation
- The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight WW Norton
- New York Times crosswords
- Thursday, March 31
- Thursday, August 19
Editing Magazine pieces
- Original pirate material by Felix Bazalgette
- Someone else’s code by Sam Learner
- The lonely torture of Wimbledon dreams by Johnny Kauffman