Ben Casselman has been named chief economics correspondent at The New York Times.
He has been at the publication since August 2017.
Casselman previously worked at FiveThirtyEight, where he was a senior editor and chief economics writer. He’s written about income inequality, education, criminal justice and the last presidential election. He helped lead the site’s “Gun Deaths in America” project, which was the recipient of several awards, including one from the Society of News Design.
Before joining FiveThirtyEight, Casselman worked at the Wall Street Journal, both in Dallas and New York. His coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting and won a Loeb award.
He started his career at the Salem News, in Massachusetts. Casselman also teach economics reporting at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Columbia University.
