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In Conversation with Nicholas Thompson

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Running, writing, and the business of truth.

In Conversation with Nicholas Thompson — Timeless Conversation No. 005 The 100 Year Conversation Published March 26, 2026 Guest Nicholas Thompson The Atlantic (168 yrs) Subscribe I I n 1997, Nicholas Thompson showed up for his first day at CBS's 60 Minutes. By the end of that day, he had been fired. Thompson was twenty-two, six months out of Stanford, and suddenly without a plan. He went to Africa with friends, and upon arrival was kidnapped by drug dealers in Morocco. That daylong ordeal became his first published story, a piece in The Washington Post. When he got back to New York, he couldn'

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