Thurm named business editor at Wired
Scott Thurm, the former senior deputy technology editor at The Wall Street Journal, has been hired as the business editor at Wired magazine. He starts July 31. Thurm has been at The Journal since May 1998 in its San Francisco bureau before leaving at the end of last year. He became senior deputy tech editor […]
How Wired’s editor Thompson keeps the magazine attractive to readers
Nicholas Thompson is the editor in chief Wired, which he rejoined in January. He is also a contributing editor at CBS and CNN International, which means he appears on air to talk about tech stories and trends. Thompson is also a co-founder of The Atavist, a digital magazine and publishing platform. Prior to starting at Wired, […]
Wired seeks a business editor in San Francisco
Wired is seeking a first-rate business editor to work with our digital editorial team. Overview Wired’s business editor will oversee and edit all of Wired’s online business coverage—from short news stories to longer-form profiles and columns. Beyond that, the person in this position should be comfortable working in a fast-paced and collaborative newsroom, be nimble […]
Wired seeks a copy editor in San Francisco
Wired is seeking a first-rate copy editor to work with our print and digital editorial teams in our San Francisco office. The copy editor will be expected to edit all editorial content—from short web posts to long-form features—for grammar, style, and syntax. Beyond that, copy editors should have a great ear for language and be able to […]
Wired hires features editor, senior writer
Vera Titunik has been hired by Wired magazine as its features editor, while Jason Parham has been hired as senior writer In addition, Ivylise Simones has been hired as design director, platforms. Titunik joins Wired from The New Yorker, where she served as executive editor of newyorker.com. Previously, Titunik was editor, Sunday Business at The New York Times, story editor at The New […]
Wired hires two, names Streshinsky its executive editor
Wired editor in chief Nicholas Thompson announced Wednesday that Jahna Berry has been hired as head of content operations, Tom Simonite has been hired as senior writer, and Maria Streshinsky has been promoted from features editor to executive editor. “I am excited to announce these new hires and promotions,” said Thompson in a statement. “We’ve got Maria figuring out how to […]
Wired’s Thompson: No more jump pages in magazine
Emma Bazilian of Adweek interviewed Wired editor Nick Thompson about changes he’s made to the magazine since returning at the beginning of the year. Here is an excerpt: How about the print magazine? Any changes there? My two conflicting goals are to bring back crazy design of early Wired and to make everything more readable. Those are somewhat in […]
Wired hires Feinberg to cover politics and culture
Wired magazine has hired Gizmodo senior reporter Ashley Feinberg to cover politics and Internet culture. Her first day is May 30 in New York. She will be a senior writer, writing across all Wired sections. John Cook, the executive editor of the special projects desk at Gizmodo, wrote an email to the staff on Tuesday that stated: It is with […]
NY Times hires Metz to cover emerging tech
New York Times business editor Dean Murphy sent out the following announcement on Friday afternoon: He reads technical papers for fun — and understands them. He knows what Google’s TensorFlow is. He has taken an artificial intelligence class with Facebookers. And he can readily explain the difference between machine learning and deep learning and where neural networks […]
Wired hires features editor, senior tech writer
Wired editor in chief Nicholas Thompson announced Tuesday that Mark Robinson has been hired as features editor and Nitasha Tiku will join the staff as senior writer. Additionally, Jason Tanz has been promoted to site director. “If digital journalism were the NBA, Mark, Nitasha, and Jason would all start for the Warriors,” said Thompson in a statement. “They’re brilliant, and I’m lucky to […]
