About me
Bill Nichols is a Senior Advisor at Freedman Consulting, LLC, joining the firm after a 35-year career in journalism, most recently as the founding Managing Editor of POLITICO. He brings decades of experience in covering Washington and national politics and a successful track record guiding two innovative media startups: the launch of POLITICO in 2007 and POLITICO Europe in 2015. Before joining POLITICO, where he served as Managing Editor from 2007-2012 and Editor-At-Large from 2012-2015, Bill spent more than 20 years at USA Today. He covered the Clinton White House from 1993-1999, the State Department from 1999-2004, and was a senior correspondent in the newspaper’s Washington bureau. He is a former national reporting jury chair for the Pulitzer Prizes and past secretary/treasurer of the Reporter’s Committee for Freedom of the Press.