Walter Hickey

Walter Hickey is Insider's Deputy Editor for data and analysis. In addition to his work on elections and data journalism, he edits comics at Insider and writes "Numlock News," a daily morning newsletter.

Previously, he worked for FiveThirtyEight as chief culture writer and at Business Insider.

In 2022 Hickey won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting for his work on Insider's "I Escaped A Chinese Internment Camp," which documents the plight of Uyghurs in China.

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