Ben Casselman
FiveThirtyEight
Chief Economics Writer
Ben Casselman is the Chief Economics Writer for ESPN’s FiveThirtyEight, where he has written on such subjects as income inequality, immigration, education and the recent protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Prior to joining FiveThirtyEight, he was a national economics correspondent for The Wall Street Journal in New York. From 2008 to 2011, he covered the oil and gas industry for the Journal’s Dallas bureau, where his coverage of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in national reporting and won a Gerald Loeb Award. A graduate of Columbia University, he lives in New York.