Matsakis returns to Wired as a senior editor

Louise Matsakis

Wired executive editor Brian Barrett sent out the following to the staff on Thursday:

Hi all, I’m extraordinarily happy to share that we’ve hired a senior editor for the business desk, who will work closely with Natasha and our US-based reporters. Louise Matsakis is returning to WIRED, and she’ll be starting November 11.
Many of you have worked with Louise before at WIRED, or been edited by her at other publications. In my experience, she has an innate understanding of what a WIRED story is, and more importantly has a body of work as a reporter and editor that embodies what WIRED strives to be: smart, newsy, scoop-driven, voicey, global, and fun.
Before her current impressive freelance run—with stories at the Atlantic, NBC News, and us, among others—Louise has been an impactful editor at Semafor and Rest of World. I can’t wait to see the kind of mark she makes on WIRED this time around.
Brian

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.