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Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson is an associate editor at The Atlantic. A former media aggregator for Slate, his writing has also appeared in Encyclopaedia Britannica and Texas Monthly. Follow him on Twitter @nbj914.

An associate editor at The Atlantic, Nicholas is a graduate of both the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and The Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy (IMSA). Before joining The Atlantic, he worked as a media aggregator for Slate. His writing has also appeared in Encyclopaedia Britannica; Texas Monthly; and other publications, both in print and online.

In addition to working at The Atlantic, Nicholas serves as both an officer of The International Association for Literary Journalism Studies and the editor of AtlasObscura.com, a compendium of curious travel destinations. Follow him on Twitter.
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