#33: Nick Casey is a staff reporter for the New York Times Magazine based in Europe. He writes about geopolitics, threats against democracy and armed conflict. Raised in California by a single mother, Nick earned a degree in anthropology from Stanford University and started his journalism career as a cub reporter for the Half Moon Bay Review in Northern California. A few years later he was recruited by the Wall Street Journal and launched an impressive career that has included nine years in Latin America, several stints in the Middle East and five years in Europe. With the New York Times since 2015, Nick Casey is the rare correspondent who writes in long-form, telling the stories of people carving a path through a world that is either changing or collapsing.

In 2025 Nick Casey was a member of a New York Times team awarded the Pulitzer Prize for their coverage of the war in Sudan. He is also hard at work on a memoir titled Vagabonds, about the decades he spent searching for his father, who disappeared when he was just seven years old. Nick lives in Madrid with documentary filmmaker Jacqueline Baylon, who was interviewed for Full Expression in late 2024.