Nick Gillespie

Nick Gillespie
Gillespie in 2013
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^[2]

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Nicholas John Gillespie (/ɡɪˈlɛspi/; 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 a variety of media outlets.^[4] Gillespie has edited one anthology, Choice: The Best of Reason.^[5]

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.^[6] 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.^[7]

News website The Daily Beast named Nick Gillespie number 18 on their list of "The Right's Top 25 Journalists".^[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]

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.^[10]

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.
↑ "Rachel Maddow, Nick Gillespie Have Intense Argument On 'Real Time'". Huffington Post. 2012-06-23. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
↑ "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.
↑ 9.0 9.1 Reason.com
↑ Veronique de Rugy (June 21, 2011). "‘The Declaration of Independents’". National Review Online. Retrieved July 2, 2011.

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