Nick Thompson (@nxthompson) is the
editor-in-chief of WIRED. Under his leadership, Wired has
launched a successful paywall, a Snapchat channel, and an AMP
Stories edition; it has also been nominated for National Magazine
Awards in design and feature writing.
Nick is a contributor for CBS News and regularly appears on CBS
This Morning. He is also co-founder of The Atavist, a National
Magazine Award-winning digital publication. Prior to joining
Wired, Thompson served as editor of NewYorker.com from 2012 to
2017.
Before The New Yorker, Nick was a senior editor at Wired, where
he assigned and edited the feature story that was the basis for
the Oscar-winning film Argo. In 2009, his book The Hawk and the
Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War
was published to critical acclaim. In February 2018, Thompson
co-wrote WIRED's cover story Inside the Two Years That Shook
Facebook -- and the World, an 11,000-word investigation based on
reporting with more than 50 current and former Facebook
employees.
In this conversation, we cover a wide range of topics, questions,
and skills, including:
What makes a good pitch?
How does a good features writer (or editor) "map" a story?
How does writing get optioned for feature film, and what are
important deal points?
How can publishers (and website or blog owners) hire and pay
good long-form writers?
And much more...
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