Categories: OLD Media Moves

Dadich out as editor of Wired, replaced by Thompson

Scott Dadich is out as editor of Wired magazine, replaced by Nicholas Thompson of the New Yorker, reports Peter Kafka of Recode.

Kafka writes, “Dadich, along with marketing veteran Patrick Godfrey, will start Godfrey Dadich Partners, a ‘strategy, design and content firm.’

“Thompson is returning to Wired, where he had been a senior editor from 2005 through 2010.

“‘Nick is an incredibly accomplished editor and we are confident that his previous experience at Wired combined with a deep knowledge of the tech space will serve to both sharpen and grow the brand,’ Conde Nast CEO Bob Sauerberg told Wired employees in an internal memo.

“The job swap is happening as Conde Nast goes through another reorganization, as the magazine publisher continues to grapple with the realities of the digital publishing world.

“Dadich, who had been at Conde Nast for 11 years, had once been the beneficiary of digital disruption. Back in 2010, when Apple launched the iPad, he was in charge of Conde’s efforts to create ‘tablet’ editions of its magazines for the devices.”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.