Williams departs Wired for Exponential View
Greg Williams, former editor of Wired UK, is joining Exponential View as its inaugural executive editor. Exponential View is a research studio founded by Azeem Azhar that publishes essays, investigations, tools, interviews and more on exponential technologies to hundreds of thousands of global readers. It also advises sovereign funds, artificial intelligence labs and corporate leaders. […]
Wired pulls plug on UK print edition
Wired will not publish a print magazine in the United Kingdom in 2026 as it focuses on global digital subscriber growth, reports Charlotte Tobitt of Press Gazette. Tobitt writes, “Seven editorial staff left Wired’s London office at the end of 2025, with the team being rebuilt to focus on audience development roles and some UK and […]
Wired senior reporter Knibbs moves to prediction market beat
Wired senior reporter Kate Knibbs is shifting beats and is now covering prediction markets. Before joining Wired, Knibbs held the post of staff writer at The Ringer. Before that, she was with Gawker Media as a senior writer and also held the post of a contributing writer at The Onion. She was a staff writer for The Daily […]
Wired seeks a senior editor for science coverage
Wired is seeking an experienced editor for our science desk. Reporting to WIRED’s director, science, politics, and security, you’ll work with a team of experienced reporters to break news, shape insightful analysis, and support enterprise reporting. In this role, you’ll be responsible for WIRED’s science news coverage, which encompasses the impact of climate change, the […]
Why Wired is embedding videos in stories
Hanaa Tameez of Nieman Lab looks at how Wired and other publications are embedding videos in stories. Tameez writes, “When Wired had six reporters follow a robotaxi from autonomous car company Waymo around San Francisco, for example, associate director of social Evy Kwong took vertical smartphone videos and interspersed them through the piece. In a story about […]
Washington Post hires Simonite as tech companies editor
Washington Post business editor Lori Montgomery, deputy business editor Sandhya Somashekhar, technology editor, corporate and personal tech Yun-Hee Kim and technology editor, enterprise and investigations Alexis Fitts sent out the following announcement: We are thrilled to announce that Tom Simonite is joining The Post’s Business staff as Tech Companies Editor, helping to drive coverage of […]
Grist hires Wired’s Simon as senior staff writer
Grist has hired Matt Simon as a senior staff writer covering solutions. Simon previously worked at Wired, where he covered climate change, the environment, and technology for nearly 13 years. He’s the author of three books, most recently “A Poison Like No Other: How Microplastics Corrupted Our Planet and Our Bodies.” He’s reported on a broad range […]
Shachtman returning to Wired as contributing editor
Katie Drumm, global editor in chief of Wired, send out the following on Tuesday: Hi All — I’m very, very excited to share that the one and only Noah Shachtman is returning to WIRED as contributing editor. Noah was most recently the Editor-in-Chief of Rolling Stone, which he reinvigorated over two-and-a-half years, leaning hard into […]
Wired hires Drummond as next editor in chief
Wired magazine has hired Katie Drummond to be its next editor in chief, reports Katie Robertson of the New York Times. Robertson writes, “Condé Nast, the publisher of Wired, announced on Thursday the appointment of Ms. Drummond as its global editorial director. Ms. Drummond joins from Vice Media, where she was the senior vice president of global news […]
Jason departs Wired after 4.5 years
Zak Jason is leaving Wired magazine after four-and-a-half years. Jason directs the research department and newsroom standards, and edits features, ideas essays, and op-eds. He’s written for The New York Times Magazine, Boston Magazine, Slate, The Guardian, and many other places. He was raised in Virginia, Mississippi, and Massachusetts. Jason is a graduate of Boston […]
