Walter Hickey

Walt Hickey writes Numlock News, a daily stat-based newsletter full of fascinating stories about everything from art heists to lost cities to MoviePass. He is a deputy editor at Insider for data and analysis. Formerly, he was chief culture writer at FiveThirtyEight. In 2022, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting.

Walt Hickey writes Numlock News, a daily stat-based newsletter full of fascinating stories about everything from art heists to lost cities to MoviePass. He is a deputy editor at Insider for data and analysis. Formerly, he was chief culture writer at FiveThirtyEight. In 2022, he won the Pulitzer Prize for Illustrated Reporting. See less