Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie
Gillespie in 2013
Born Nicholas John Gillespie
(1963-08-07) August 7, 1963[1]
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Education B.A., Rutgers University
M.A., Temple University
Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo
Occupation Journalist, political commentator

Nicholas John Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; born August 7, 1963)[1] is an American libertarian journalist who was editor-in-chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008 and editor-in-chief of Reason.com and Reason TV from 2008 to 2017. Gillespie originally joined Reason's staff in 1993 as an assistant editor and ascended to the top slot in 2000. He is currently an editor-at-large at Reason. Gillespie has edited one anthology, Choice: The Best of Reason.[2][3]

Life and career

Gillespie was born in Brooklyn, New York, and grew up in New Jersey. His educational history includes a B.A. in English and psychology from Rutgers University and a M.A. in English from Temple University, as well as a Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo.[4] He has two sons, Jack and Neal Gillespie.

Prior to joining Reason, Gillespie worked at a number of small trade magazines and other journalistic outlets. He worked for several years at Teen Machine magazine, where he interviewed celebrities and ghost-wrote an advice column for actress Alyssa Milano.[5]

In an interview with CNN anchor Jake Tapper, Gillespie and Tapper said that they contributed articles for the alternative website Suck.com in the 1990s.[6] On Suck.com, Gillespie wrote under the pseudonym Mr. Mxyzptlk.[7]

In 2010, The Daily Beast named Gillespie number 18 on their list of "The Right's Top 25 Journalists".[8] Gillespie himself is a contributor to The Daily Beast.[9]

Gillespie shared the award for "Best Advocacy Journalism" at the 53rd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards with Drew Carey and Paul Feine for their work "Reason Saves Cleveland."[10] He also received an honorable mention for "Best News Organization Website."[10]

In 2011, Gillespie published The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America with Reason editor-in-chief Matt Welch.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 Gillepsie, Nick (August 7, 2012). "My Birthday Wish: Please Reverse Engineer Obama's Awful "Events Registry" By Sending Him Gifts, Not Cash". Reason. Reason Foundation. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Who's Getting Your Vote?". Reason. November 2004. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
  3. 1 2 Veronique de Rugy (June 21, 2011). "'The Declaration of Independents'". National Review Online. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
  4. ↑ "Staff: Nick Gillespie". reason.com. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
  5. ↑ Hirschmann, David(2003-11-04) , mediabistro.com
  6. ↑ CNN's Jake Tapper on The Hellfire Club, Donald Trump's Big Lies, and D.C.'s 'Bullshit Waterfall'- YouTube
  7. ↑ Suck Contributor: Nick Gillespie
  8. ↑ Varadarajan, Tunku (February 10, 2010). "The Right's Top 25 Journalists: 18. Nick Gillespie". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on February 12, 2010. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
  9. ↑ Nick Gillespie - The Daily Beast
  10. 1 2 Reason.com
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