Nicholas Thompson is the editor-in-chief of WIRED, a position he has held since January 2017. He is the fifth editor of WIRED since its founding. Under his leadership, WIRED has launched a successful paywall, a Snapchat channel, and an AMP Stories edition; it has also been nominated for National Magazine Awards in design and feature writing. Cover stories have included a look at the debate raging in the tech industry about free speech; an essay on the complicated emotional relationship between humans and robots; and a look at the way chatbots can change the afterlife.  Thompson was the co-author of the magazine’s cover story in March 2018, “Inside the two years that shook Facebook—and the world.”