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.
Email, Bluesky
Magazine cover stories
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Power and birds in a lonely desert
- The final secret of a cryptosculptor
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Lasers, politics and redefining the second
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An archival deep-space rescue mission
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Geometric land battles in the mountains
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Algorithmic horse-betting syndicates
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Building the world’s tallest flagpole
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Elite chess in Spain in wartime
- Legal fights over a ‘truth machine’
Books
- Seven Games: A Human History (Norton)
- The Riddler: Fantastic Puzzles from FiveThirtyEight (Norton)
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
Crossword plagiarism (538)
The darkest town in America (538)
Playing chess with Magnus Carlsen (538)
Finding God on a game show (538)
New York Times crosswords
Thursday, March 31, 2022
Thursday, August 19, 2021