Nicholas Thompson

Who is Nicholas Thompson?

Nicholas Thompson is a journalist at The New Yorker magazine, where he is the editor of newyorker.com. Previously, he was a senior editor at the magazine.

He is also a contributing editor for Bloomberg Television, 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 appears several times a week on Bloomberg to discuss technology news, and he appears every Wednesday morning on CNN International's News Stream.

Prior to the New Yorker, Mr. Thompson was a senior editor at Wired Magazine 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, while at Wired he was 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.