Wired launches Spanish-language edition

Wired, seeking to address the gap in serving tech news to Spanish-speaking audiences, has launched Wired in Spanish, reports Ray Schultz of Publishers Daily.

Schultz writes, “Urbano Hidalgo, head of editorial content at GQ Mexico and Latin America, will assume the same title at WIRED in Spanish, effective January 1. Hildalgo will continue to lead content at GQ Mexico and Latin America until a replacement is hired.

“WIRED In Spanish features a website and dedicated social channels. Verticals on the site include Business, Science, Ideas, Culture, and Gadgets. The site will publishing original reporting and translated stories from WIRED’s global newsroom.

“Hildalgo and the team will also be tasked with building the brand’s live events business in the region. This was launched in September 2022 with the inaugural WIRED Summit.”

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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.