His work has appeared in Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Nation, The Huffington Post and This Land Press. Author of the groundbreaking book, PRIVATE: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History, Nicks has been featured as a commentator on NPR, Al Jazeera, CBS News, Democracy Now! and the Young Turks. He served as a Fulbright Scholar in the Philippines in 2007-8 and participated in the Humanity in Action Fellowship in Warsaw in 2009. Nicks is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.