Ben Casselman — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as Chief Economics Correspondent at The New York Times.
Adjunct Lecturer at Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY since 2016, teaching economic reporting.
Previously Senior Editor and Chief Economics Writer at FiveThirtyEight from 2014 to 2017.
Worked as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal from 2006 to 2013.
Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
Shared a Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers for coverage of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Nominated for a Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting in 2021 for his work on the COVID-19 pandemic's economic impact.

Biography

Ben Casselman is the Chief Economics Correspondent at The New York Times, where he covers economics and business topics with a specialty in data-driven storytelling. He is also an experienced speaker and lecturer on economics and data journalism, making appearances on various outlets including PBS, NPR, the BBC, MSNBC, and C-SPAN.

Casselman began his journalism career at The Salem News after graduating from Columbia University in 2003.