About
Tyler Cabot is founder and editor of The Chronicles of Now and an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard. He also runs Now/Here, a content monetization lab that helps media companies build sustainable products and business models.
Cabot spent the first decade of his career as features and fiction editor at Esquire magazine before leaving to spend a year studying journalism monetization as a 2014 Nieman Journalism Fellow at Harvard. Upon returning to the magazine, he created Esquire Labs, where he invented new ways for the title to make money from editorial including Esquire Classic, a complete, living archive of everything ever published in the magazine from 1933 to today. Cabot also created the magazine’s paywall and podcast while partnering with companies such as Public Radio Exchange, Medium, Atavist, and Piano on new editorial products.
Most recently he served as deputy editor at Audible Originals, where he oversaw day-to-day editorial operations, and created original audiobooks with authors such as Robert A. Caro, Adam Grant, and Curtis Sittenfeld.
Cabot is a founding member of Narrative 4, Colum McCann’s global storytelling non-profit, and has served on the jury for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing. He's a frequent speaker on monetization and the future of longform journalism.
Press
“The 50 Best Podcasts of 2020,” The Atlantic, December 26, 2020.
“Short Fiction For Our Times,” The New York Times, May 15, 2020.
“Curtis Sittenfeld’s Next Story Will Be an Audible Original,” The New York Times, December 6, 2018.
"All Ears—Caro Working on Audio-Only Project," AP, March 20, 2017.
“Podcast Revives Esquire’s Greatest Stories—and Its Business," Wired.com, October 5, 2015.
“How Esquire Built Esquire Classic," Nieman Labs, September 25, 2015.
“Esquire Takes ‘What I’ve Learned’ Feature to Medium,” WSJ.com, April 21, 2015.
Creator
The Chronicles of Now, short fiction inspired by today’s headlines. Because in a world gone haywire, sometimes art is the only thing that can make sense of it all.
The Chronicles of Now Podcast, developed with Pushkin Industries.
Esquire Classic, the complete archive.
The Esquire Classic Podcast, biweekly podcast about Esquire's greatest stories.
What I've Learned: The Animated Series, animated interviews with Clint Eastwood and other luminaries.
Narrative 4: How to Be a Man, launch website featuring 80 original short stories.
Editor
Power Moves: Lessons from Davos, by Adam Grant, Audible Original, January 2019.
On Power, reflections and reminiscences by Robert A. Caro, Audible Original, May 2017.
Do we Really Want to Live Without the Post Office? by Jesse Lichtenstein, Esquire, January 2013.
"Joplin," by Luke Dittrich, Esquire, October 2011. Winner, National Magazine Award for Feature Writing.
”One of These Men Changed Politics Forever,” by Lisa Taddeo, Esquire, March 2009. Profile of David Plouffe included in Best American Political Writing.
Writer
"Whatever Happened to Stem Cells," Esquire, April 2013. The promise of artificial organs is no match for politics.
"The Prisoners of Guantánamo," Esquire, September 2011. A profile of Noor Uthman Muhammad, Guantánamo inmate 707. Supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
"Stories My Father Told Me," Esquire, July 2009. How my father came to represent an accused terrorist at Guantánamo.
"The Theory of Everything," Esquire, December 2006. Included in Best American Science Writing 2007.