Wired hires Robison as senior correspondent
Wired executive editor Brian Barrett shared the following announcement on Monday: Hi all, I’m thrilled to share that Kylie Robison will be joining us as a senior correspondent. In this role, Kylie will be covering the business of AI—what goes on inside the companies shaping the biggest story in tech. In the coming months, she’ll […]
Wired seeks a journalist to start a weekly, premium newsletter
Wired seeks an experienced journalist to helm a weekly, premium newsletter. In this role, you’ll be responsible for producing one must-read newsletter per week in your area of expertise. Coverage areas can vary depending on an applicant’s individual strengths, but should be in a core Wired topic such as politics, Big Tech, artificial intelligence, internet […]
Wired’s Drummond on covering the intersection between tech and politics
Parker Molloy interviewed Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond for The Long Lead about its strategy covering the intersection of technology and government. Here is an excerpt: How has Wired‘s approach to covering tech power players such as Musk and other Silicon Valley names evolved as they’ve become more directly involved in politics? You just can’t have a conversation […]
Wired hires Harmanci as features director
Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond sent the following to the staff: All – Please join me in welcoming Reyhan Harmanci to WIRED as our Features Director. In this role, Reyhan will oversee much of WIRED’s most ambitious work. Of course, that includes our longform narrative storytelling, as well as the US-UK print editions. It also includes […]
Wired hires Taft as senior writer
Tim Marchman, director of politics, science, and security coverage at Wired, sent out the following on Tuesday: I’m delighted to announce that Molly Taft will be joining us as a senior writer covering climate on the science desk starting this coming Monday, March 24. You’ll be familiar with their work from, among other places, Drilled, […]
Wired is dropping its paywall for FOIA-based reporting
Wired is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Freedom of the Press Foundation writes, “This approach makes a lot of sense from the standpoint of civil duty. They’re called public records for a reason, after all. And access to public documents is more […]
Wired hires Krishnan as senior editor
Manisha Krishnan is joining Wired as its senior editor, culture. She starts on March 24. Krishnan is an Emmy award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in the Guardian, VICE News, Business Insider, and CNN, among other publications. She was a senior reporter and editor at VICE News for nearly nine years, covering drugs, race, […]
Wired hires Haskins as a business reporter
Wired magazine has hired Caroline Haskins as a business reporter. She will start March 10. Haskins has been freelancing for more than a year after leaving Business Insider, where she was a research editor and senior tech reporter. She joined Business Insider in August 2021 to cover artificial intelligence and surveillance technology. She previously worked at BuzzFeed, where she […]
Wired’s coverage of politics is paying off
David Bauder of the Associated Press writes about Wired’s decision to focus on the intersection between technology and politics. Bauder writes, “Wired gained 62,500 new subscribers in the United States during the first two weeks of February alone. Last year it reported a total of 19.5 million subscribers, either digital or for the monthly printed magazine, […]
How Wired is like Wayne Gretzky
Wired staff writer Vittoria Elliott spoke with Micah Loewinger of “On the Media” about the publication’s coverage of the Department of Government Efficiency. Here is an excerpt: Micah Loewinger: You guys are beating the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC, big newsrooms, Washington bureaus with deep sourcing throughout Capitol Hill. How is your team so far ahead of the competition? […]
