Data journalism is changing many facets of business reporting, but perhaps nowhere is the change more visible than in the coverage of economic news. Three people doing pace-setting work at the New York Times' Upshot, 538 and Quartz talk about their work and the criticism it has generated.
Ben Casselman is chief economics writer for ESPN's FiveThirtyEight, the definitive website for data-driven journalism. Previously Casselman spent more than seven years as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, covering energy, real estate, politics and most recently economics.
Senior Economics Correspondent, The New York Times
Neil Irwin is a senior economics correspondent for The New York Times, where he writes for The Upshot, a Times site for analysis of politics, economics and more. He is the author of “The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire,” about the efforts of the world’s... Read More →
Matt Phillips is the finance and markets editor at Quartz, where he has worked since it launched in September 2012. Prior to joining Quartz, Phillips was at The Wall Street Journal for seven years, most recently covering the aftermath of the Great Recession and the relentless descent... Read More →
