Wired hires Gizmodo’s Couts to be a senior editor

Wired magazine has hired Gizmodo executive editor Andrew Couts to be a senior editor overseeing its security desk.

He starts on Monday.

He has been executive editor since 2021. Previously, he was serving as interim editor-in-chief.

Couts has been with Gizmodo for over four years, having also served as managing editor and deputy editor. He was also a politics editor at The Daily Dot and a features editor at Digitaltrends.com. He was also an associate editor at The Week.

Couts also held editorial posts at Maxim magazine and Stuff magazine.

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.