Wired hires features editor, senior editor
Wired editor in chief Scott Dadich announced the following editorial hires in a memo to staff: Maria Streshinsky joins as features editor at Wired. She was most recently deputy editor at Mother Jones. Previously, Streshinsky was editor in chief at Pacific Standard from 2011 to 2015, where she assigned and edited the 2015 National Magazine […]
Why Wired is switching to HTTPS
Ricardo Bilton of Nieman Lab writes about Wired magazine’s switch to HTTPS for its website. Bilton writes, “While some smaller publishers have switched over to HTTPS in recent years, the job is far more difficult for a bigger site like Wired, which has content going back for over 20 years, most of which was initially […]
How Wired explains how the future is changing today
Wired editor in chief Scott Dadich talked with Alexandra Steigrad of Women’s Wear Daily about tech and the magazine. Here is an excerpt: Wired breaks news, and with that comes the need to own a story and chase it. How does Wired separate itself from news outlets? The metric is — as journalists — is there something we’re bringing […]
Four stories on Wired.com were plagiarized
RetractionWatch.com reports that four stories that have appeared on Wired.com since the beginning of year contained plagiarized material. Ivan Oransky of RetractionWatch reports, “It was the start of an episode that would lead to the dismissal of a WIRED reporter, and the addition of warning notes to four of the publication’s stories. “When Rogers got […]
Wired to charge for ad-free version of website
Wired magazine plans to charge $3.99 a month for an ad-free version of its website, writes Joshua Brustein of Bloomberg News. Brustein writes, “Wired plans to charge $3.99 for four weeks of ad-free access to its website. In many places where ads appear, the site will simply feature more articles, said Mark McClusky, the magazine’s […]
Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek win Ellies
Wired and Bloomberg Businessweek were the two business magazines that won National Magazine Awards from the American Society of Magazine Editors on Monday. Wired won the design category. It was also a finalist in the service category for “All Work and All Play,” by Rashida Jones. Bloomberg Businessweek won the single-topic issue category for “Code: […]
Businessweek, Fast Company, Wired nominated for Ellies
Fast Company, Wired and Bloomberg Businessweek were among the business magazines nominated for National Magazine Awards by the American Society of Magazine Editors on Thursday. Wired is a finalist in the design category. It is also a finalist in the service category for “All Work and All Play,” by Rashida Jones, July. Bloomberg Businessweek is […]
Wired expands transportation coverage
Wired magazine is creating a section of its website to cover transportation industry news. Alex Davies, who oversees the new section and plans to hire two writers, writes, “WIRED’s transportation coverage has always focused on more than the latest hypercar or theory about MH370. Last year, we reported from the front seat of Audi’s self-driving carand took Tesla Motors’ gorgeous electric SUV for a […]
Wired executive editor leaves for Epic
Mark Robinson, the executive editor of Wired magazine, has left the technology-focused publication to become editor in chief of Epic magazine. He will start in January. In more than a decade at Wired, Robinson has also served as a senior editor, articles editor and features editor. He oversees the print magazine, editing its features as […]
Wired’s Apple News experiment
Kalev Leetaru writes for Forbes.com about how Wired magazine posted an article on Friday that has only been available to Apple News subscribers for the past four days. Leetaru writes, “What would have been an otherwise ordinary Wired article has generated controversy because Wired chose to make this particular article available exclusively to Apple News users […]
