He is a former correspondent for NBC News and appears regularly live from the White House on MSNBC.

Nichols has served as a subject matter expert about American politics on Washington Week, the Golf Channel, and KCRW, and Sierra Leone on National Public Radio.

[1][2][3][4] On May 27, 2020, it was announced that Nichols would be leaving NBC and MSNBC to become a political reporter at Axios.

[5] He is expected to cover the Joe Biden campaign and other national political issues.

In June 2016, Nichols became Pentagon correspondent for NBC News, replacing Jim Miklaszewski.