Nicholas Thompson (editor)

Nicholas Thompson
Thompson in 2022
Born
1975
Alma mater
Occupation
Years active1999–present
OrganizationThe Atlantic
Websitenickthompson.com

Nicholas Thompson (born 1975) is an American technology journalist and media executive. In February 2021, he became Chief Executive Officer of The Atlantic.[1] Thompson was selected in part for his editorial experience, which includes stints as the editor-in-chief of Wired and as the editor of Newyorker.com.[1] In early 2024, The Atlantic announced it had more than one million subscribers and returned to profitability. He was responsible for instituting digital paywalls at both The New Yorker and Wired; at Wired, digital subscriptions increased almost 300 percent in the paywall's first year.[1][2] While at The New Yorker, Thompson co-founded Atavist, which sold to Automattic in 2018, and in 2009, he published his first book, The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, a biography of George Kennan and Thompson's maternal grandfather, Paul Nitze.[1] Thompson's assorted writing includes features on Facebook's scandals,[3] his own friendship with Stalin's daughter,[4] an unidentified hiker,[5][6] and his marathon running.[7]

In addition to his work at The Atlantic, Thompson is a contributor for CBS News and regularly appears on CBS This Morning and CBSN.[8] In 2021, he set the American record in the 50k for men aged 40–45.[9]

  1. ^ a b c d Tracy, Marc (2020-12-03). "The Atlantic Plucks Wired Magazine's Top Editor as Its New C.E.O." The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  2. ^ "We Launched a Paywall. It Worked! Mostly". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  3. ^ "15 Months of Fresh Hell Inside Facebook". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  4. ^ Thompson, Nicholas (24 March 2014). "My Friend, Stalin's Daughter". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  5. ^ "A Nameless Hiker and the Case the Internet Can't Crack". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  6. ^ "The Unsettling Truth About the 'Mostly Harmless' Hiker". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2021-04-22.
  7. ^ Thompson, Nicholas (April 20, 2020). "To Run My Best Marathon at Age 44, I Had to Outrun My Past". Wired. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
  8. ^ "Nicholas Thompson". New America. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  9. ^ "How 45-year-old Nicholas Thompson Trained to Run 5:56 per mile for 50K". PodiumRunner. 2021-04-16. Retrieved 2021-04-21.