Wired senior editor Wasik joining NYT magazine

Bill Wasik, a senior editor at Wired magazine, has been hired as deputy editor of the New York Times magazine.

Wasik currently edits feature-length articles on technology, science, business and culture for Wired.

On Twitter, he posted: “Big news: Thrilled to announce I’m returning to NYC this summer to become a deputy editor at the New York Times Magazine.”

Prior to joining Wired in 2010, he was an editor at Harper’s Magazine for 10 years, and he edited more than 30 cover stories while there.. He is the author of And Then There’s This: How Stories Live and Die in Viral Culture, and co-author of the forthcoming Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus.

Wasik is a graduate of Amherst College and also spent time at The New Yorker.

Wasik is also credited as the inventor of the flash mob.