Nick Mott

Nick Mott

Multimedia journalist

Nick Mott is a multimedia journalist based in Missoula, Montana who focuses on the environment, wildlife and public lands. His reporting has been in NPR’s All Things Considered and Morning Edition, The Washington Post, Outside, High Country News, and PRI’s The World, among other outlets. 

His podcast productions have been on How To Save a Planet, Reveal, Throughline, and more. He’s produced the independent podcast Threshold, Sony Music/Three Uncanny Four’s BioHacked: Family Secrets, and the Montana Public Radio Podcasts Richest Hill, Fireline and Shared State. He also hosted REI’s Take it Frddsom Me. Together, his podcast productions won a Peabody and a national Edward R. Murrow award, been named one of the best podcasts of the year by the New Yorker, breached the iTunes Top Ten charts multiple times and received praise in publications all across the country. 

When he’s not reporting, he’s usually stumbling his way up a mountain somewhere. He released his first book, "THIS IS WILDFIRE: How to Protect Yourself, Your Home, and Your Community in the Age of Heat", with co-author Justin Angle, in 2023.

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