Bill Nichols

Bill Nichols has been managing editor of POLITICO since January 2007. He joined the new publication after more than 20 years at USA Today, where he covered the White House, the State Department and was a senior correspondent in the newspaper’s Washington bureau.

A native of Anchorage, Kentucky, Nichols was drawn into newspaper journalism during his undergraduate years at Indiana University. He began his career at the Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, and was on the staff when the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 1983.

Nichols was a Pulitzer juror in 2009 and 2010 and a juror for the Knight International Journalism Awards in 2010. He has covered six presidential campaigns, 12 national conventions and traveled to more than 30 countries, including covering Russian President Vladimir Putin’s re-election in 2004. He also emerged undefeated from two presidential golfing outings with Bill Clinton.