Digital producer Belanger leaves Wired as part of layoffs
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 stint at Wired. She previously worked there as a researcher. She has also worked at Entrepreneur magazine as a reporter and […]
Senior writer Raftery leaves Wired
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 before that. Raftery was previously managing editor for Yahoo Movies and an associate editor at GQ. He was also a correspondent […]
Senior editor Fitts leaves Wired
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. Before that, she manned The Observatory, CJR’s blog providing commentary and explanatory reporting on the science, medical, environmental and technology press. […]
LinkedIn hires Wired’s Hempel as senior editor at large
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 the past 15 years — the way technology is upending our lives and shifting the way we live and work.” She […]
Wired hires five new staffers, including two senior editors
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. He joins from Outside, where he worked since 2014, most recently as digital general manager. At Outside, Rosenfield launched the site’s […]
Wired has launched a streaming channel
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 Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV and Android TV. The service will also launch on Roku in the next week, the publisher […]
How Wired magazine lost $100,000 in bitcoin
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 essentially won the Bitcoin math lottery a couple of times, allowing it to generate a little over 12 coins into the […]
Wired senior editor Dorment leaves for Men’s Health
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 from Rodale in January, for Dorment. Prior to his two-year stint at Wired, Dorment was a senior editor at Esquire under longtime […]
Wired hires Goode from The Verge as senior writer
The Verge senior tech editor Lauren Goode has been hired by Wired magazine as a senior gear writer. She starts in early April and will be writing online and in print, as well as developing a new video series Prior to becoming a senior editor at The Verge, Goode was managing editor of consumer tech […]
Wired editor Thompson denies using information from job interview
Wired editor Nicholas Thompson denied using information from a job interview last year with Mashable deputy teach editor Michael Nuñez in his cover story this month on Facebook, reports Michael Calderone of Politico. Calderone writes, “Nuñez interviewed with Thompson for a job at Wired in late April 2017 and told me they discussed his Gizmodo […]
