Nicholas Phillips is the senior editor at St. Louis Magazine. He reports for the Economic Mobility Lab, writes longform features for the print editions, and contributes to the Daily and Business newsletters.
His previous positions include staff reporter at Missouri Lawyers Weekly; managing editor for Out in STL; and deputy news editor, staff writer and news blogger at the Riverfront Times, an alt-weekly. As a radio and podcast guest he has discussed his work on St. Louis on the Air, The Charlie Brennan Show, The Dave Glover Show, The Chris and Amy Show, and The 314 Podcast.
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).