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Nick Thompson

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Nicholas Thompson is the CEO of The Atlantic, a position he has held since 2021. During that time, the publication has won three National Magazine Awards for General Excellence, three Pulitzer Prizes, and been named Digiday’s Publisher of the Year. It has also significantly grown revenue, while reaching the highest level of subscribers in its 167-year history. Thompson is the former editor-in-chief of WIRED, where he built successful subscription and affiliate revenue businesses. While at WIRED he also wrote and edited multiple stories that were cited in front of Congress and one that was turned into an Academy Award-winning film. Another of his stories was recently turned into a documentary for HBO Max. Thompson is a cofounder of The Atavist, a multimedia CMS that was sold to WordPress, and Speakeasy.ai, which was sold to Amplica Labs. He previously served as editor of NewYorker.com. He is a life member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a board member at The National Committee on American Foreign Policy, the author of The Hawk and the Dove: Paul Nitze, George Kennan, and the History of the Cold War, and a former contributor to CNN and CBS News.

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