Nick Carroll

Nick Carroll, born in 1959 in Brisbane, Queensland, is an Australian surf journalist, former competitive surfer, author and editor, and the older brother of two-time world surfing champion Tom Carroll. His family moved to Newport, New South Wales, in 1961, and he began surfing at eleven. As a competitor he won the men's division of the Australian National Surfing Titles in 1979 and 1981 and was runner-up in 1977, and he was a founding member of the Newport Plus Surf Club. He edited Tracks magazine from 1984 to 1986, worked in the United States as editor-in-chief for Western Empire Publications, publisher of Surfing Magazine, edited Deep magazine from 1997 to 2000, and became Surfline's Australian editor after Surfline acquired Coastalwatch in 2019. His biography of his brother, TC, won the Surf Culture Award at the 2014 Australian Surfing Awards.