Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond sent the following to the staff:
All –
Please join me in welcoming Reyhan Harmanci to WIRED as our Features Director.
In this role, Reyhan will oversee much of WIRED’s most ambitious work. Of course, that includes our longform narrative storytelling, as well as the US-UK print editions. It also includes special projects and packages, with Angela Watercutter moving her talents into Reyhan’s team. Reyhan will also collaborate across the newsroom to ideate and execute on new ways to conceive of big stories and how we tell them. Audio? Video? Zines airdropped out of a drone? WIRED is all about what’s next, and Reyhan will be tasked with figuring out how we take that prescience and creativity, and apply it to our journalism.
A bit about Reyhan: She got her start as a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and BuzzFeed’s tech team, and went onto roles as a top editor at Modern Farmer, Atlas Obscura, and Topic Magazine. Reyhan recently spent a few years helping lead Gimlet Media, and oversaw shows including the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Stolen.” She’s joining us from Bloomberg Businessweek, where she created podcasts like “Elon, Inc.” and worked on packages about summer camp, sports gambling, air travel, and men. She lives in Brooklyn with her family, one of whom [wait for it…!] was the titular baby in the film, “Shiva Baby.”
Reyhan joins Brian Barrett’s team of directors, and will work closely with both myself and Brian to take our stellar feature program to new heights.
Reyhan is based in New York, and she starts Monday. Yes, this coming Monday!
Please join me in welcoming Reyhan, online and in-person starting next week!
Katie
