Fortune’s Hempel to join Wired

Jessi Hempel, a senior writer at Fortune magazine, has resigned to join Wired magazine.

She writes on Medium:

Today, I’m thrilled to share the news that I am joining WIRED as a senior writer covering the business of technology.

It’s hard to leave a journalistic organization as rich in quality and history as Fortune. It has always had a reputation as a collegial outfit — a place where my colleagues willingly shared sources and helped each other make ideas better. It shows in smart, analytical reporting like Roger Parloff’s recent feature on Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes. During my seven-year tenure, I was lucky enough to help lead one of the premier tech conferences, Fortune Brainstorm Tech. I was grilled on my reporting and pushed in my writing by exceptional editors, and I got to work with the most dogged writer in the biz, Carol Loomis (who retired this summer after spending 60 years writing for Fortune).

I will continue reading Fortune’s great work as I shift my focus to new challenges. At WIRED, I’ll be based in New York with frequent trips to San Francisco. I’ll write about many of the same people and companies I have long covered for Fortune, and I’ll be working with WIRED’s amazing and ambitious editorial team under the leadership of editor-in-chief Scott Dadich and executive editor Jason Tanz. (Have you seen what these guys have been up to? Just this week WIRED published the richest profile I’ve read of Edward Snowden.)

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