Wired magazine hires Conrad as a writer

Jennifer Conrad

Wired magazine has hired Jennifer Conrad as a writer.

She has spent the last year as a fact checker at The New York Times Magazine.

Conrad has previously worked at Vogue, where she was head of the research department, fact-checking many of the magazine’s high-profile and sensitive articles. She also was a researcher for Teen Vogue and senior online editor for Women’s Day.

She has also been a freelancer, reporting on travel, food, health, and music for Billboard, Every Day with Rachael Ray, Condé Nast Traveler, and MensFitness.com.

Conrad holds a bachelor’s degree from New York University and a master’s degree in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University.

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.