Wired and Bloomberg Businessweek were the only two business-related magazines to receive nominations for the annual American Society of Magazine Editors awards, commonly known as the Ellies. Wired was named a finalist in the...
Condé Nast International and Nervora, the Dubai-based publisher of Vogue Arabia, announced that they will launch a Middle East edition of Wired. Khaoula Ghanem of Vogue Arabia writes, “Wired Middle East will debut first...
Digital producer Lydia Belanger was among those laid off at Wired magazine late last week. Senior writer Brian Raftery and senior editor Alexis Sobel Fitts were also laid off from Wired. This was Belanger’s second...
Brian Raftery, a senior writer at Wired, has left the news organization. His last day was last week. He had been at Wired since December 2015 and was a contributing editor for six years...
Alexis Sobel Fitts, a senior editor at Wired, has left the publication. Fitts was a previously an editor at Wired media group’s Backchannel. She has also been a contributing editor at Columbia Journalism Review....
LinkedIn has hired Wired senior editor Jessi Hempel as a senior editor at large. On LinkedIn, Hempel writes that she will continue to “explore the set of ideas that has driven my reporting for...
Wired editor in chief Nicholas Thompson announced Wednesday the hiring of several new staff members, including a new site director, social media director, and two senior editors. Wired’s new site director is Scott Rosenfield....
Wired has launched its first streaming channel to reach people who are spending more time in over-the-top video environments, reports Sahil Patel of Digiday. Patel writes, “Launched on July 1, Wired’s streaming channel is available on...
Louise Matsakis of Wired magazine writes about how the publication garnered about $100,000 in bitcoin in 2013 after receiving a mining device and then promptly destroyed how to retrieve them. Matsakis writes, “Wired’s miner...
Wired senior editor Richard Dorment has been hired as editor in chief of Men’s Health. He had been with Wired since June 2016. Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke of WWD reports, “This is a return to Hearst, which acquired Men’s Health...
