Nick Gillespie

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Nick Gillespie
Nick Gillespie
Born	(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
Religion	None (apatheism)^[2]

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Nick Gillespie (born August 7, 1963)^[1] is an American libertarian journalist. He is the editor of Reason.com and Reason.tv and was the editor in chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008.^[3] He has written articles or been a commentator for many media outlets and edited one anthology, Choice: The Best of Reason.^[4]

Gillespie hosts and anchors a number of the Reason TV offerings, and has become, along with Drew Carey, one of the most familiar faces of Reason TV.

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

News website The Daily Beast named Nick Gillespie number 18 on their list of "The Right's Top 25 Journalists".^[7] Chuck Plunkett of The Denver Post has called Gillespie "an urbane sophisticate" and:

a true intellectual, who can, before finishing his lunch, discuss how The Great Gatsby might be written today, switch to a riff on free-market reasons for supporting a value-added tax, reference economic studies that detail the "self-correcting" tax distribution in European countries that have applied a VAT, chart from memory the nation’s deficit spending patterns since the Great Depression, and all while handling a pretend-I’m-interested discussion with a political candidate whose conversation is limited to repeating the phrase, "It’ll be a real dog-fight, in every sense of the word."^[8]

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."^[9] He also received an honorable mention for "Best News Organization Website."^[9]

Gillespie has never voted for a winning presidential candidate.^[10]

In 2011, Nick Gillespie published The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America with Reason editor-in-chief Matt Welch.^[11]

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 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.
↑ Gillespie, Nick. "Christopher Hitchens, RIP". Reason Magazine. Retrieved 16 December 2011.
↑ "Reason Magazine and Reason.tv Announce New Editors" (Press release). Reason Foundation. November 27, 2007.
↑ "Who's Getting Your Vote?". Reason. November 2004. Retrieved 2008-10-27.
↑ "Staff: Nick Gillespie". reason.com. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
↑ Hirschmann, David(2003-11-04) , mediabistro.com
↑ Varadarajan, Tunku (February 10, 2010). "The Right's Top 25 Journalists: 18. Nick Gillespie". The Daily Beast. Retrieved February 11, 2010.
↑ Plunkett, Chuck (2010-07-19) Spotted This Morning: Reason among alcohol, tobacco and firearms, Denver Post
↑ 9.0 9.1 Reason.com
↑ Reasoners on The Freedom Watch With Da Judge: Nick Gillespie Talks Down Presidents on Their Very Special Day, Reason (Feb. 21, 2011)
↑ Veronique de Rugy (June 21, 2011). "‘The Declaration of Independents’". National Review Online. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

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Name	Gillespie, Nick
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Short description	American magazine editor and political writer
Date of birth	August 8, 1963
Place of birth	Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
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