Executive editor Marco is leaving Wired

Meg Marco, executive editor of news at Wired, is leaving the news organization.

She joined the Conde Nast publication in March. “I’m proud of the all the amazing work we accomplished in what felt like an instant, and can’t thank everyone enough,” she wrote on LinkedIn.

She had been editor-in-chief of the Observer for two years before joining Wired.

Marco previously worked at ProPublica, where she was the senior editor managing audience strategy, social and editorial newsletters. She was also a co-editor of the coronavirus coverage that was a finalist for the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Public Interest.

Marco was previously a masthead editor at The Wall Street Journal where she oversaw digital content strategy, including the multi-platform expansion of the Future of Everything franchise and the digital launch of the weekend section Exchange. During her time at the Journal, she founded and staffed the WSJ Media Science Lab, a center for AI and machine learning in the newsroom, and her team successfully relaunched over 30 newsletters.

She is formerly the editor and head of product of Consumerist, a Gawker Media site that was later acquired by Consumer Reports.