Nicholas Jackson

Nicholas Jackson is Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Stanford Social Innovation Review. Nick is a National Magazine Award-winning newsroom leader with 15+ years of experience building and running large, ambitious, data-driven teams and driving exponential digital and revenue growth in director-level and editor-in-chief roles at tech startups and consumer publications including The Atlantic, Pacific Standard, Built In, and Outside. He occasionally consults for a wide variety of clients through his LLC, Fifth Gate Media, which serves as a vehicle for work on content and distribution strategy; freelance reporting, editing, and project management; media literacy efforts; and other entrepreneurial experiments in both journalism and tech environments. Nick earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism and is a graduate of The Illinois Mathematics & Science Academy, a residential high school in the suburbs of Chicago, where he is currently based.