Nick Lucchesi Takes Helm At The New Stack

Happy first Monday of 2026 to The New Stack (TNS) readers! It is pinch awesome pleasance that I present you to Nick Lucchesi, our caller Editor-in-Chief (EIC).

After an exhaustive search, we recovered our person, who comes pinch a operation of longtime acquisition and imagination for what’s next. Most recently, Nick served as editor-in-chief for Laptop Magazine, portion of nan Future PLC group of publishers.

Nick joins TNS arsenic his predecessor, Heather Joslyn, retires this month. We needed a coagulated replacement for Heather — personification who could travel successful and support nan world-class tech news cognition that TNS is, arsenic good arsenic hole america for an AI-driven future that is apt to effect each of publishing. Nick fits nan measure here.

Bringing Clarity to Complexity

Nick told maine 1 point that attracted him to TNS was that connected nan about page for the publication, there’s a condemnation that becomes much apt each day: “Technology is complex. We make it clear.”

“I’ve spent my profession seeking retired sometimes analyzable problems and issues and explaining them, while besides identifying narratives for willing readers, nary matter their level of expertise,” he said. “As generative AI drives package improvement forward, nan complexities of progressively powerful exertion must proceed to beryllium explored pinch curiosity and rigor, arsenic should nan group driving alteration successful nan space. Bringing clarity to nan analyzable is how The New Stack will scope much and much of nan world’s estimated 47 cardinal package developers.”

Moreover, Nick told maine he prioritizes nan convergence of a data-informed editorial strategy and human-centric storytelling.

“Our recent scholar survey shows that 72% of our assemblage relies connected america to stock nan latest news and place caller devices and trends,” he said. “I’m present to guarantee that each portion of news we people provides contiguous penetration aliases inferior for our assemblage of technologists building astatine scale.”

What Readers Can Expect

Readers tin expect a blend of extent and velocity nether Nick’s leadership, he said.

“I americium a long-time admirer of nan original interviews and heavy dives that define The New Stack, and we will proceed to put successful nan publicity that drives nan conversation,” Nick told me. “Readers tin besides expect a quicker editorial pulse. To beryllium genuinely essential, we must beryllium a regular destination. Readers tin expect to spot an accrued accent connected timely news accumulation — ensuring that TNS is nan first spot 1 looks erstwhile nan manufacture moves.”

In addition, Nick said his contiguous privilege is to behaviour a listening circuit — some pinch nan TNS editorial squad arsenic good arsenic pinch nan organization and nan creators we cover.

“I’m not coming successful to alteration nan instauration of what makes The New Stack great. Instead, my attraction is connected optimizing really we present that worth to our organization of readers,” he said. “We’ll beryllium looking astatine really we tin amended utilize different formats to meet developers wherever they are. My extremity is to support this world-class squad successful becoming moreover much agile arsenic we study connected nan improvement of at-scale technology.”

Where Lucchesi Comes From

At Laptop Magazine, Nick led sum connected hardware and package for an assemblage of experts and spearheaded a broad rebranding of nan publication’s newsletter strategy to ore connected nan early of computing.

In addition, he has held galore activity roles astatine media organizations, including serving arsenic editor-in-chief and executive editor of Inverse. During this period, he oversaw assemblage maturation to much than 30 cardinal monthly unsocial visitors and guided nan squad to a Digiday award for the Inverse Daily newsletter.

His master history spans publicity and contented strategy, including moving for Asana and holding elder editorial roles astatine Village Voice Media crossed publications specified arsenic the Village Voice, the St. Louis Riverfront Times, and the Denver Westword.

“What I really for illustration astir Nick is really he besides comes from that replacement play background,” Alex Williams, TNS laminitis and publisher, said astir Lucchesi. “And erstwhile you activity astatine an replacement play aliases a mini newspaper, you really study astir why efficiencies — some editorial and operational — are truthful important.”

A Journalist Through and Through

“He’s a journalist done and through, you know, he’s ever been a journalist, and he wanted to beryllium a journalist since he was a small kid,” Alex noted.

Nick, who reached maine for this article while astatine a Hampton Inn conscionable wrong nan occidental separator of Pennsylvania halfway to his location successful Brooklyn, NY, indicated that publicity is successful his humor and has been for a agelong time.

Indeed, “I grew up successful a family wherever news power was perpetually playing successful nan kitchen,” Nick told Alex during nan question and reply process. “That early experience, mixed pinch subscriptions to newspapers and later, magazines, made becoming a newsman consciousness for illustration a earthy vocation.”

Like Nick, galore young group cognize precisely what they want to do astatine an early age, and they’re usually nan ones who excel.

This reminds maine of really tons of precocious young group saw nan world early and knew they wanted to beryllium journalists to support folks informed astir nan world astir them. For instance, a full procreation of young girls — for illustration a mates of friends of excavation — had their journalistic dreams affirmed by Mary Tyler Moore and her eponymous TV show — “You’re gonna make it aft all!”

Meanwhile, tons of young boys pinch journalistic hopes whitethorn person been affirmed by Clark Kent arsenic a mild-mannered newsman astatine The Daily Planet and aspired to beryllium that.

OK, Clark Kent mightiness beryllium a stretch, because immoderate kid acquainted pinch Kent apt wanted to beryllium his change ego Superman. But 1 of Nick’s superpowers is not conscionable his chemoreceptor for news, but his organizational skills. “He’s ace good organized,” Alex said.

Part of that comes from having worked astatine Asana, a supplier of a activity guidance level designed to thief teams organize, track, and negociate their work. Not only did he activity there, but he launched nan integer magazine The Workback while astatine Asana.

That skill, successful summation to Nick’s editorial acquisition and life committedness to journalism, put him complete nan apical pinch Alex.

I, too, was progressive successful nan question and reply process, on pinch my colleagues Frederic Lardinois and Loraine Lawson. We interviewed nan finalists for nan gig and Nick acquitted himself good pinch us.

My Hope

Nick starts coming arsenic EIC, though Heather will enactment connected until nan extremity of nan period to guarantee that nan modulation goes smoothly. Like Nick, Heather has a keen oculus for news and possesses beardown organizational skills. Yet (and I’ve said this to nan staff), I judge 1 of her unadvertised superpowers is empathy. Not empathy arsenic successful weakness aliases situation I opportunity “wokeness”, but successful nan consciousness of fairness and equilibrium and truth successful reporting. I don’t deliberation that changes pinch Nick. My dream is that it will not.

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