Nicholas Thompson (editor)

Nicholas Thompson is the editor of Wired Magazine, appointed on January 3rd, 2017.

Before that, Thompson was a journalist at The New Yorker magazine, where he was the editor of newyorker.com. Previously, he was a senior editor at the magazine. He gave an interview in November 2015, where he said that the main strategy the website had for growing traffic was to put more time into editing better stories. "“The most encouraging thing we found is that the stories we’re prouder of, the stories we put more effort into, attract more readers," he said.

He is also a news contributor for CBS News, and the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War. He is a fellow at the New America Foundation and a contributing editor at CNN International. He is also a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Washington Times said his book "May be the most important political biography in recent memory.” The Washington Post called it "Brilliant."

Prior to the New Yorker, Thompson was a senior editor at Wired for 5 years. While there, he assigned and edited "Vanish" by Evan Ratliff, which was nominated for a National Magazine Award, as well as "The Great Escape," the story which was optioned by George Clooney and then turned into the movie Argo.

Before that, he was a Senior Editor at Legal Affairs and an editor at the Washington Monthly. He has written about politics, technology, and the law for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The New York Observer, and many other publications. In addition to his regular work with Bloomberg TV, he was also a frequent guest on CNN’s American Morning and NBC’s Today Show. He has also appeared as a commentator on Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, ABC’s Live with Regis and Kelly and World News Tonight, CBS’s Early Show, and National Public Radio.

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