Nick Romeo

Nick Romeo is a journalist and author. His recent book, The Alternative: How to Build a Just Economy (2024) uses original reporting to provide a road map for a sustainable and fair twenty-first-century economy. The Guardian praised it as “an enlightening, inspiring read,” and the Washington Post called it “a brisk and sensible book that details bold and ingenious proposals in measured tones.” Romeo has spent years covering policy and ideas for The New Yorker where he has reported on the world’s largest worker-owned cooperative in Mondragon, Spain, and a job guarantee experiment outside of Vienna, Austria. Romeo has also contributed to The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, The New Republic, and many other venues. He also teaches journalism at UC Berkeley.