Nicholas Phillips is the senior editor at St. Louis Magazine, where he runs the Solutions vertical.
His previous positions include staff reporter at Missouri Lawyers Weekly; managing editor for Out in STL, a quarterly magazine for the city's LGBTQ community; and deputy news editor, staff writer and news blogger at the Riverfront Times, an alt-weekly. As a radio guest he has discussed his work on The Charlie Brennan Show and St. Louis on the Air.
While freelancing in Central America, Nick wrote for the New York Times, the Wilson Center, the Los Angeles Times, InSight Crime, Foreign Policy, VICE News, GlobalPost, the Christian Science Monitor and Southern Pulse.
Before all of this, Nick was part of an investigative team at The New York Times that exposed disability fraud in the Long Island Rail Road. He received his M.S. from the Journalism School at Columbia University in 2008. He speaks French and Spanish, and can ride a motorcycle (poorly).