Wired seeks a features director
WIRED is looking for an experienced, collaborative, deeply invested leader to oversee our ambitious, award-winning features program, special projects, and the print edition of our English-language magazine. This is a career-defining role, with the opportunity to do the most formidable journalism of your career and lead WIRED to new heights of editorial excellence and renown. […]
Wired UK shifts to quarterly print schedule
Tech magazine Wired UK is dropping from a bimonthly to a quarterly print schedule, it has told subscribers, reports Bron Maher of Press Gazette. Maher reports, “In a letter sent with copies of the January and February issue of the Condé Nast-owned magazine, the UK edition of the title also told readers that it had ‘gone global’ and would […]
Wired seeks a senior writer to cover climate
Climate change is driving incalculable transformation around the world, and its impacts will only accelerate from here. WIRED seeks a writer to cover this incredibly consequential beat, with a particular focus on how people and technology are adapting to a rapidly changing world—or failing to. You’ll cover the compounding impacts of higher temperatures, rising sea […]
Wired senior writer Meaker is departing
Morgan Meaker, a senior writer for Wired covering Europe, is leaving the publication after three years. She has been covering innovation across Europe. She was previously at The Telegram, where she has worked as a technology reporter and most recently, as a business reporter. She has also worked freelance for Wired, BBC News, The Guardian, Reuters, Politico, Financial Times, DR […]
Wired seeks a reporter to cover tech companies
WIRED seeks a reporter to cover tech companies and their influence, with a particular focus on the major platforms. In this role, you’ll be responsible for delivering high-impact stories for the WIRED business desk, ranging from breaking news to longer-lead investigations. While your coverage will primarily involve Big Tech, you’ll have a wide remit to […]
What Wired is planning for its coverage
Katie Drummond, global editorial director of Wired, writes about the publication’s future coverage plans. Drummond writes, “At WIRED we believe that technological progress and scientific discovery will, sometimes slowly and sometimes quickly—often turbulently, too often inequitably—improve human lives and introduce possibilities that were once unfathomable. We believe in the potency and creativity of the human […]
Wired strikes partnership with 404 Media
Wired has struck an exclusive partnership with 404 Media, a tech news site launched last year by former Motherboard journalists. Wired and 404 Media will co-publish two exclusive articles a month that will cover topics including hacking, cybersecurity, cybercrime, AI, consumer rights, surveillance, privacy, and more. This partnership allows for two newsrooms to reach an […]
Wired hires Schiffer as director of business and industry
Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond shared with staff this morning: All – I am tremendously excited to share that Zöe Schiffer is joining WIRED as our Director, Business & Industry, reporting to Brian Barrett and joining Tim and Mike to complete our newsroom leadership team. Zoë is currently the managing editor of Platformer, a […]
Wired sees success under Drummond
Mark Stenberg of Adweek looks at the success of Wired. Stenberg writes, “The technology publisher Wired has seen its revenues rise and readership swell under the leadership of editor in chief Katie Drummond, who joined the title last August from Vice Media. “Global revenue at the Condé Nast property has risen 6%, while commerce revenue has grown […]
Matsakis returns to Wired as a senior editor
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 […]
