Nick Gillespie is editor in chief of Reason.tv and Reason.com and almost certainly the only journalist who has interviewed bat-eating rock star Ozzy Osbourne and Nobel prize-winning economists Milton Friedman and Vernon Smith.He is a two-finalist for digital National Magazine Awards and one of the "Top 25 Journalists on The Right" according to the Daily Beast, which enthuses "the clear-headed, brainy Gillespie is among the foremost libertarians in America [who is] as often at odds with conservative mules as he is with liberals."Gillespie served as editor in chief of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008, creating its award-winning blog Hit & Run (praised by Playboy, the Washington Post, and the Village Voice) and making history by publishing the first mass-personalized magazine cover for 45,000 Reason subscribers in June 2004.Prior to descending into the ring of hell known as political journalism, he was a staffer for publications such as Teen Machine, Smash Hits, and Metallix: It'll Rock You to Shreds!, and was a regular contributor to the pioneering satire site, Suck.com, where he wrote under the nom de plume Mr. Mxyzptlk.Gillespie has a Ph.D. in American literature and edited the 2004 anthology Choice: The Best of Reason, lauded for its "kick-a**, no-holds-barred political" material (The New York Post) and "sharp writing and sensible political discourse for those weary of the screams from the left and the right" (Joe Garden, The Onion). His work appears in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, and he's a regular guest on CNN, C-SPAN, NPR, and Fox News.Gillespie splits his time between Washington, D.C. and Oxford, Ohio and has two sons.