Wired hires four new editorial staffers
Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond sent out the following on Thursday: Hi All – It’s been a blockbuster year for WIRED so far, and the hits keep coming: I’m very excited to welcome several new, talented colleagues to the team! Verity Burns is joining the WIRED Gear team as an Associate Editor, based in the UK office […]
Katwala now features editor at Wired
Amit Katwala is now a features editor at Wired. He has been with Wired since October 2018 as an editor and writer, based in London. He works across the UK print magazine and on features, science, and culture. He graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in experimental psychology. His latest book is “Tremors […]
PCMag hires Wired’s Henry as managing editor
PCMag has hired Alan Henry as its managing editor. He will start on Aug. 19. Henry is currently the director of special projects at Wired in New York City. He was previously Smarter Living editor at The New York Times and editor in chief of Lifehacker. He is also the author of the book “Seen, Heard, and Paid: […]
Wired announces editorial promotions
Wired editorial director Kate Drummond sent out the following on Thursday: Hi All – Please join me in congratulating several of your colleagues on their well-earned promotions. Andrew Couts is now WIRED’s senior editor for security & investigations: In this newly created role, Andrew will still run our world-class security coverage and report to Tim Marchman. […]
Wired reporter Grey departs
Jaina Rodriguez Grey, who writes for the Gear section at Wired, is leaving the publication after five years. During her time at Wired, she developed and established new coverage areas including sex tech. She built out a contact network in a sex tech industry that was understandably skeptical of a mainstream outlet suddenly showing so much […]
Wired adds travel coverage
Alan Henry, director of special projects at Wired, wrote the following: Hello, and welcome to WIRED Travel, WIRED’s new destination for coverage of all things transportation, aviation, vacation, and more. Of course, innovations in travel technology, from next-generation electric vehicles to fuel-sipping, climate-friendly aircraft, are all mainstays of WIRED’s coverage already. But we’re excited to pull […]
Perplexity plagiarizes Wired story about Perplexity
Tim Marchman of Wired magazine writes about how artificial intelligence company Perplexity plagiarized a Wired story that called the company a “bullshit machine.” Marchman writes, “After we published the story, I prompted three leading chatbots to tell me about the story. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude generated text offering hypotheses about the story’s subject but noted that they had no […]
Wired seeks a senior writer to cover China
Some of the most consequential shifts in technology—across e-commerce, automotive, social media, AI, and beyond—are happening in China. Wired seeks a writer to cover this incredibly consequential landscape, with a particular focus on how China shapes technology for the entire world, and the US response to its rising dominance. You’ll cover China-based companies with a […]
Wired seeks a multiplatform producer in London
The Producer, Multiplatform is responsible for creating vertical videos from ideation to delivery and across multiple platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, WIRED.com, and other emerging social platforms. This role will both curate archival assets and create original video, working closely with WIRED’s integrated US/UK newsrooms to identify reporting across our verticals that has the […]
Wired seeks an editor to lead business and industry coverage
Wired is seeking an experienced editor to lead our business and industry reporting. Reporting to Wired’s executive editor for news, this is a senior management position with oversight of 12+ reporters and editors across our US and UK teams. In this role, you will be responsible for both the big picture and the smaller details. […]
