Wired executive editor leaves for Epic

Mark Robinson, the executive editor of Wired magazine, has left the technology-focused publication to become editor in chief of Epic magazine.

He will start in January.

In more than a decade at Wired, Robinson has also served as a senior editor, articles editor and features editor.

He oversees the print magazine, editing its features as well as long-form narrative pieces for the web and the digital edition. He has been the editor of some of Wired’s signature articles of the last decade, from profiles of Edward Snowden, John McAfee, and Kim Dotcom to articles about the new atheism, neurodiversity, memory, and self-driving cars.

In 2005 he and writer Jeff Howe were talking about a pitch for a business trend story and coined the word “crowdsourcing.” It is now in the Oxford dictionary.

In conjunction with Wired’s 20th anniversary in 2013, he edited a collection of the 20 best Wired stories of all time. Robinson led the front-of-book team that won a National Magazine Award for best section, and two stories he edited have been nominated for National Magazine Awards for feature writing.