OLIVER ROEDER

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I’m 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.

MAGAZINE COVER STORIES

Birds and power in the desert
Secrets of a cryptosculptor

Redefining the second
Notes from underground
A deep-space rescue mission
Geometric land battles in the mountains
Algorithmic horseracing syndicates
Elite chess in wartime
The world’s tallest flagpole
Legal fights over prediction markets

OTHER FEATURES

Underground sound in a dying planet
Crossword gods in Connecticut
Lost and afraid in the metaverse
Lunch with Hans Niemann
The problem with polling
The future of sports futures
Crossword plagiarism (538)
The darkest town in America (538)
Playing chess with Magnus Carlsen (538)
Finding God on a game show (538)

BOOKS

Seven Games: A Human History (Norton)
The Riddler: Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight
(Norton)

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORDS

Thursday, Mar 31, 2022
Thursday, Aug 19, 2021