A non-conventional editor at Wired
Joe Pompeo of Capital New York profiles new Wired editor Scott Dadich, a former designer trying to bring the rest of Conde Nast into the 21st century. Pompeo writes, “Dadich, however, won’t agree that there’s anything strange in a long-time designer and digital business enthusiast becoming the editor-in-chief of a marquee magazine. ”Creative directors and […]
Wired hires Gizmodo editor Brown
Joe Brown, the editor of tech news site Gizmodo, is leaving to become Wired magazine’s New York editor. Peter Kafka of All Things D writes, “Brown will be Wired’s ‘New York editor,’ a new role that will have him weighing in on the brand’s magazine, tablet edition and website. It’s his second time at Wired, […]
Blowing things up at Wired
Emma Bazilian of Adweek talked to new Wired editor Scott Dadich about the tech magazine and his penchant for design. Here is an excerpt: In your first editor’s letter, you said that you were planning to “blow some stuff up” at Wired. What did you mean? This is a place that really thrives on change, […]
Wired names new editor for website
Wired magazine has replaced its longtime website editor-in-chief, Evan Hansen, with a Wired magazine veteran, Mark McClusky, reports Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat.com. Tweney writes, “Both Hansen and McClusky are my friends, so I’m going out on a limb a bit in reporting on the story. I worked at Wired.com from 2007 to 2011, where Hansen […]
Half of Wired’s ad revenue coming from digital
Nat Ives of Advertising Age writes that half of Wired’s advertising revenue in the last three months of 2012 came from digital. Ives writes, “Digital revenue for most magazines still runs at a significantly lower level. “Digital advertising contributed to about 10% of Wired ad revenue in 2006, when parent company Condé Nast bought Wired.com […]
Wired executive editor resigns
Thomas Goetz, the executive editor of Wired magazine, has resigned, nearly two months after editor Chris Anderson announced his departure. Goetz announced his departure in a blog post on Thursday. He writes, “I’ve been proud, incredibly and uproariously proud, of what we’ve done at WIRED during the past decade. We have been on top of […]
Wired names Dadich as new editor
Scott Dadich has been named the new editor of Wired magazine, replacing Chris Anderson, who resigned earlier this month. Lucia Moses of Adweek writes, “Dadich served as creative director for Wired from 2006 to 2010, where he notably led the magazine to three consecutive National Magazine Awards for design. After developing Wired’s widely praised iPad […]
Wired editor in chief resigns to run robotics company
Chris Anderson, the editor in chief of Wired magazine, has resigned to run a robotics company. A story on its website states, “A physicist by training, Anderson became a media boldface name through best-selling books about the digital ‘bits’ economy (The Long Tail and Free) and more recently, the physical world of ‘atoms’ (Makers). On […]
Wired tech journalist leaves to run startup
Ryan Singel of Wired has left the business news magazine to run a startup, reports Anthony Ha of TechCrunch. Ha writes, “Ryan Singel, editor of Wired’s security blog Threat Level, told me that today is his last day on the job, because he’s leaving to run his startup Contextly. Over the past decade, Singel has held […]
Wired terminates relationship with Lehrer
Wired magazine has ended its relationship with writer Jonah Lehrer after it found problems with his writing. In a note posted on its website, Wired.com editor in chief Evan Hansen wrote: This week we concluded a preliminary WIRED review of a sample of articles from Jonah Lehrer’s personal blog, Frontal Cortex, which was active on […]
