Wired hires Legro as deputy editor on features team

Michelle Legro has joined the features team at Wired as a deputy editor.

She comes from Medium, where she recently served as deputy editor, GEN and before that, as a features editor, GEN.

She also worked in the story department, Radiolab, at WNYC Radio and was a contributing editor at The Wing, a twice-yearly print magazine in New York. She was also a features editor at First Look Media in New York, and a contributing editor at Columbia Journalism Review.

She has also edited for Longreads in New York and The New Republic.

Legro earned her bachelor’s degree from Barnard College and a master’s degree from Columbia University in New York.