Nick Gallagher

I’m a Brooklyn-based journalist and audio producer from North Carolina, and I most recently worked as a general assignment reporter at The Messenger. Before that, I was the chief researcher at The Week.

My work has recently appeared in The Progressive, The Brooklyn Eagle, The Brooklyn Rail, and Popula, among other outlets.

In December 2020, I graduated from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. I’m a member of The Association of LGBTQ Journalists and Study Hall, an online community for media workers.

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Art & Culture

Bad Seed Scammers Are Exploiting the Internet’s Rare Houseplant Hysteria
The Messenger (Via Wayback Machine)

Inside Brooklyn’s Burgeoning Queer-Inclusive Barbershop Community
Brooklyn Magazine

My Descent Into the World’s Strangest Radio Mystery
Mangoprism

Brooklyn Chefs Deliver ‘Michelin Star Quality’ By Bike
Bushwick Daily

On its 100th Anniversary, the World’s First Electronic Instrument Continues to Awe
The Brooklyn Rail

The Bed-Stuy Record Store That Shaped Brooklyn’s Music Scene
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

Measuring the NYC Marathon, Long Before the Starting Gun
NYCity News Service

Advance Base's Owen Ashworth Examines the Intimacy Between Places, People, and Their Pets
Indy Week

How a Blue Devil Statue That Was Raising Hell in Small-Town Mississippi Escaped to Durham
Indy Week

Activism, Politics & Economics

SWAT Team Destroys Man’s Business While Looking for Suspect — Why Won’t the City Pay?
The Messenger (Via Wayback Machine)

Peace Activists Are Beating the Military at Its Own (Video) Game
The Progressive

Old West Durham Residents Are Battling Over the Soul of Their Neighborhood
Indy Week

What Will Trump’s Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum Mean for N.C. Businesses?
Indy Week

Protesters at Duke Joe Van Gogh Call on Administration to Condemn Controversial Employee Firing
Indy Week

ICE Raids in Orange and Chatham Counties Swept Up Ten People This Week
Indy Week

Raleigh's March for Our Lives Draws Ten Thousand Demanding Gun Reform
Indy Week

Bitcoin: The Power and Peril of Cryptocurrency
Who.What.Why.

Fighting the Koch Brothers in South Dakota
Who.What.Why.

Essays

Oh, That’s Just My Mask
Popula

Becoming a Journalist in a Pandemic
Popula

Health & Science

Computer Scientist Has to Extend Y-Axis on Chart to Show How Hot the Atlantic Has Become
The Messenger (Via Wayback Machine)

A Memoir About Multiple Personalities that’s 25 Years in the Making
Narratively

New Yorkers With Auditory Hallucinations Battle Stigma
NYCity News Service

Does the DEQ Have the Resources to Keep Up With the Triangle’s Emerging Contaminants?
Indy Week

Scientists Watch a Species Go Extinct
Who.What.Why 

Science reporting for The Academic Times

Covid Reporting

Brooklyn Resident Collects Chargers for Patients Running Low

The Experimental Art Scene Gets Creative

Roommates Wanted, More Than Ever

How New York’s Amateur Radio Community Helps the City During Emergencies

“Please Stay at Home, Mom”

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Beyond the AtmosphereSince she was a kid, Vivian Conan has lived inside a mysterious alternate world that she calls the atmosphere. It’s filled with people from her life, but in this reality, they are perfect in every way — all-loving and all-knowing. As Vivian grows up, the atmosphere starts blocking out her real-life relationships. She spends decades searching for a diagnosis, until finally, something clicks. Her unorthodox treatment involves a weekly toast ritual, hellos and goodbyes and an immaculately organized bookshelf. Listen Here

The Midnight Organ Flight
Scott Hutchison wrote lyrics about what it’s like to live with depression, and his music served as a sign of hope through the darkest periods of many listeners’ lives. When fans learned in 2018 that Hutchison had died by suicide, they set out to send Hutchison’s records around the world, from fan to fan, using his lyrics as their guiding principle: “While I’m alive, I’ll make tiny changes to earth.” Listen Here


 Contact 


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nickgallagherjournalism@gmail.com