Business Insider hires Hoover to cover tech
Business Insider has hired Amanda Hoover as a senior correspondent covering technology. She previously was at Wired covering tech and was also at Morning Brew covering the some beat. Before, Hoover was a reporter at NJ Advance Media. She has also covered breaking crime news for the Boston Globe metro section and has also worked as a weekend […]
Temperton joins Logic as deputy ME
The Logic managing editor Jordan Timm sent out the following: I’m excited to announce that James Temperton is joining The Logic as deputy managing editor. James has spent more than a decade writing and editing stories about business and technology. He was previously news editor at WIRED and held various other roles at the publication, including […]
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 […]
