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CHRIS ANDERSON, Editor in Chief, Wired magazine
Chris Anderson has served as Editor in Chief of Wired since 2001. Under his leadership, the magazine has garnered eight National Magazine Awards and 15 additional nominations, including a 2011 nomination for Magazine of the Year, and has won the prestigious top prize for General Excellence three times. AdWeek named Wired to its 2011 Hot List and made Wired its first-ever “Magazine of the Decade” in 2010. Anderson is the author of two New York Times best sellers, The Long Tail and Free: The Future of a Radical Price. His next book will be published by Crown in 2012. He is also a cofounder of 3D Robotics, an open source aerial robotics company. Before joining Wired, he served as a business and technology editor at The Economist. He began his media career at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science. In 2007, Anderson was named to the Time 100, the news magazine’s annual list of the world’s most influential people.
CHRIS BAKER, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Chris Baker edits and writes features as well as articles for the PLAY and START sections of the magazine. He also edits the monthly “Found” page, which envisions an unusual object from the future. In the past, Baker has also contributed to Slate, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Maxim, Kill Screen, Giant Robot, and the 1-Up zine.
JOHN BRADLEY, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
John Bradley oversees Wired’s consumer-product and gadget coverage and edits general features about technology, science, and culture. Prior to joining Wired, he spent seven years as an editor for Outside magazine, where he wrote and edited features on topics ranging from celebrity profiles to particle physics. His journalism career started in Tokyo, Japan, where he spent several years as a reporter and section editor for the Daily Yomiuri newspaper. Bradley holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Florida and a master’s in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in San Francisco with nine bicycles.
MICHAEL CALORE, Product Reviews Editor, Wired.com
Michael Calore edits the reviews of consumer products on Wired.com. For over a decade, he has held various roles, serving as the editor of Webmonkey, the overseer of the How-To Wiki, and as an editor and reporter of news stories about web browsers, web standards, software and web apps. Before writing about technology, he covered snowboarding and skateboarding as a journalist and worked in the music industry. Calore is an avid cyclist and a musician — he plays bass in the indie rock band Domestic Electrics and produces music by himself under the name Solar Keys. He also plays regularly as a DJ in San Francisco.
ROBERT CAPPS, Articles Editor, Wired magazine
Robert Capps oversees the magazine’s front-of-book START and PLAY sections. He also edits feature articles on subjects ranging from business to science, movies to cybercrime. He has written about robots, hackers, mercenaries, federal election laws, digital rights management schemes, videogames and the “Good Enough” revolution. Previously, he was Editor in Chief of MacAddict and an investigative reporting fellow at Salon.com.
Ken Denmead is a husband and father from the San Francisco Bay Area, where he works as a civil engineer. He’s also the editor of GeekDad, the parenting blog for Wired magazine’s online presence, where along with a group of other dedicated, geeky parents he posts projects, book and movie reviews, weekly podcasts, and more about being a parent and being a geek.
THOMAS GOETZ, Executive Editor, Wired magazine
As Executive Editor, Thomas Goetz oversees all aspects of Wired magazine, from story conception to cover packages. In addition to guiding editorial content, Goetz writes frequently for the magazine on health and technology. Recent cover stories include “Your DNA, Decoded,” about the nascent personal genomics industry, “The Truth About Cancer,” about the riddles of early detection, and “The Thin Pill,” about the pharmaceutical industry’s evangelism of metabolic syndrome. His writing has been selected for The Best American Science Writing and The Best Technology Writing anthologies. Since Goetz joined Wired in 2001, the magazine has been nominated for 12 National Magazine Awards, and has won six, including three for General Excellence. Before joining Wired, Goetz was an executive editor at the Industry Standard, the late but lauded news magazine of the internet economy. He has been a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and The Village Voice, and has written for The New York Times Magazine, Details, Rolling Stone and other publications. He holds a Master of Public Health degree from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in American literature from the University of Virginia. He graduated from Bates College. His book The Decision Tree: A Manifesto for Personal Health was published in February 2010 by Rodale Books.
EVAN HANSEN, Editor in Chief, Wired.com
Evan Hansen joined Wired.com in April 2005 from CNETNews.com, where he led consumer and media coverage. Under his stewardship, Wired.com’s traffic has grown fivefold, reaching more than 13 million unique visitors monthly. At the same time, Wired.com has been awarded for journalistic excellence on several occasions, including being named best magazine website in 2009 by both the MPA and AdWeek. Wired.com received ASME nominations in 2009 and 2011 for best interactive feature and overall excellence in digital media, respectively, and a 2008 Webby award for best writing. In 2007 and 2008, Wired.com won back-to-back honors for innovation in journalism from the Knight Batten foundation for experiments in user-generated reporting methods. Hansen has also won numerous awards for technology reporting and writing, and was named a Loeb Award finalist in the online content category in 2006. In 2010, Hansen founded Haiti Rewired, a community site committed to exploring the use of technology in Haiti’s recovery, and delivering charitable technology services for the general public in that country. He also sits on the board of the First Amendment Coalition, a non-profit dedicated to improving government transparency through strategic public interest litigation.
BRANDON KAVULLA, Creative Director, Wired magazine
Brandon Kavulla is the Creative Director of Wired magazine. Prior to joining Wired, he was a 15-year veteran of magazine art direction in New York City, holding art and design director titles at various publications such as Vibe, Spin, Details and Best Life. He most recently held the position of Design Director of Men’s Health. Brandon’s art direction and design have been awarded by a variety of organizations and publications, including ASME, the Society of Publication Designers, Print magazine, How magazine, the Art Director’s Club, Graphis magazine, American Photography, American Illustration and Photo District News, as well as American Photo Magazine‘s Best Editorial Photograph of 2006. In 2010, three issues into his redesign, Men’s Health won the ASME General Excellence award. Also that year, Brandon was selected as the lead feature for PDN’s “Players” annual, highlighting the top innovators in photography for his creative direction at Men’s Health. Brandon attended Kent State University for graphic design and currently lives in San Francisco with his wife and two children.
CHRIS KOHLER, Game|Life Editor, Wired.com
Chris Kohler is the founding editor of Game|Life, Wired.com’s videogames section. He is the author of the books Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life and Retro Gaming Hacks. His articles on Japanese curry rice have, for some reason, made him internet-famous in Japan as “that foreigner who is addicted to curry.” He has appeared on CNBC, NPR, and various other acronymmed programs, talking about the business and culture of videogaming.
DAVID KRAVETS, Senior Writer, Wired.com
David Kravets writes about security, privacy and intellectual property in the online world for Wired’s Threat Level blog — with a focus on copyright law. As the legal affairs writer for The Associated Press, his works routinely appeared in every major U.S. newspaper, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post. In 2001, he was awarded an excellence in journalism prize by AP members for disclosing that Ford Motor Co. sold 20 million vehicles it knew were prone to stalling. His warped sense of humor can be witnessed on his fake news website, TheYellowDailyNews.com.
STEVEN LEVY, Senior Writer, Wired magazine
Steven Levy joined Wired as a senior writer in 2008, but has been involved with the magazine since its inception, having authored its second cover story. He is the author of seven books, most recently The New York Times bestseller In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works and Shapes Our Lives. He has covered the digital revolution for over 25 years, with dispatches from publications including Rolling Stone, Popular Computing, Macworld, The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. His previous job was chief technology correspondent at Newsweek, where he wrote a regular column and produced more than 20 covers. His other books include the classic history of computers, Hackers; Artificial Life (about computational biology); Insanely Great (the history of Apple’s Macintosh computer); Crypto (about the revolution in cryptography); and The Perfect Thing, about the cultural impact of the iPod. He has won numerous awards for his work. Levy lives in New York City with his wife (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Teresa Carpenter) and son.
Betsy is the science editor for Wired.com. Prior to coming to Wired.com, she was an award-winning science reporter at The Contra Costa Times in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a graduate of the Science Communication Program at UC Santa Cruz and has written about science for publications including Nature, Science, Discover and New Scientist. Before becoming a journalist, Betsy was a geologist, and has a master’s degree in geology from Stanford University. She is also the de facto beer reporter for the website.
MARK MCCLUSKY, Special Projects Editor, Wired magazine
As Special Projects Editor Mark McClusky leads the award-winning magazine’s editorial efforts on new platforms, including its iPad and other tablet editions. The Wired iPad edition was downloaded over 100,000 times in its first month of availability and has been the most successful magazine to date on the device. From 2005 to 2010, McClusky was the magazine’s Senior Editor for Products, directing all gear and gadget coverage. He also served as editor of the newsstand-only WIRED TEST magazines and was the founding editor of Playbook, Wired’s sports technology blog. He has been Managing Editor of Wired.com, an editor at Mobile PC magazine, Editor in Chief of EA.com, and a reporter and editor at Sports Illustrated and SI for Kids magazines. McClusky is a co-author of Alinea with Michelin three-star chef Grant Achatz, and is an avid cook who has studied at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa. He has also written feature stories for Wired about scientist Nathan Myhrvold, sports drug czar Dick Pound, and the Nike+ iPod revolution. He has covered sporting events ranging from the Summer and Winter Olympics to the World Series. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife and two daughters.
JIM MERITHEW, Photo Director, Wired.com
Jim Merithew oversees the photo department at Wired.com. Prior to joining the Wired team in 2008, he was a photo editor at the San Francisco Chronicle. He’s had the pleasure of photographing almost every geek event known to man including ROFLcon, ComicCon, E3, SXSW Interactive and the Los Angeles Autoshow. Next on the list is the Tokyo Game Show. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife Terry and their black lab, Cody.
KEVIN POULSEN, News Editor, Wired.com
An award-winning investigative journalist, Kevin Poulsen oversees news and feature reporting at Wired.com, and is responsible for supervising the site editors, setting the daily news agenda, story planning and quality control. Poulsen joined Wired.com in 2005, and for five years served as editor of the Threat Level blog, which under his tenure won the 2008 Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism, the 2010 MIN award for best blog and both the Webby and People’s Voice awards in 2011. In 2006, Poulsen conducted a computer-assisted investigation into the presence of registered sex offenders on MySpace, which spawned federal legislation. In June 2010, Poulsen and a co-writer broke the news that the government had secretly arrested a young Army intelligence analyst on suspicion of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. He is the author of Kingpin — How One Hacker Took Over the Billion Dollar Cyber Crime Underground (Crown, 2010).
MARK ROBINSON, Features Editor, Wired magazine
Robinson oversees writers and editors who cover the impact of technology on everything from lockpicking to Egyptian politics. Prior to joining Wired in 2001, Robinson was an editor for the Industry Standard, supervising coverage of the media industry. He also spent six years as a daily newspaper reporter, hopping from California to Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Originally from Silicon Valley, Robinson moonlights as a jazz singer. He attended Stanford University’s master’s program in journalism.
ADAM ROGERS, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Adam Rogers edits feature stories about science, politics, and military and law-enforcement technology. Before Wired, he spent eight years as a reporter for Newsweek, focusing primarily on science, technology and medicine from the magazine’s New York, Boston and Washington bureaus. In 2002 and 2003, Rogers was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied the intersection of urban theory, ecology and public health. Rogers, a native of Los Angeles, earned a master’s degree from the Boston University graduate program in science writing and an undergraduate degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and two sons.
Working on the PLAY section and editing features, Peter handles Wired‘s pop culture and entertainment coverage: movies, TV, music, videogames, comic books, and anything else that is absolutely integral to the survival of our species. Before joining the magazine in 2011, he worked as the executive editor of Complex magazine, overseeing the print and web properties. Prior to that, he was a staff writer at GQ and freelanced for Details, ELLE, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Spin, and other magazines. Rubin holds a master’s in journalism from Columbia University and graduated from Williams College. He hasn’t written any books, but he’s a two-time Jeopardy! champion, so there. He lives in San Francisco with his wife.
NOAH SHACHTMAN, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine and Wired.com
Noah Shachtman is a contributing editor at Wired magazine and the editor of Wired.com’s national security blog, Danger Room. He has reported from Afghanistan, Israel, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait, the Pentagon, Los Alamos, and from military bases around the country. A Non-Resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s 21st Century Defense Initiative, he has written about technology and national security for The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal, among others. Shachtman has spoken before audiences at West Point, the Army Command and General Staff College, the Aspen Security Forum, the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, the Air Force Cyber Symposium, the U.S. Strategic Command Cyber Symposium, and the National Defense University. The offices of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, and the Director of National Intelligence have all asked him to contribute to discussions on cyber security, information operations, and emerging threats. The Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, PBS, and NPR have looked to him to provide insight on military and technology developments. Before turning to journalism, Shachtman worked as a professional bass player, book editor and campaign staffer on Bill Clinton’s first presidential campaign. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Elizabeth, and their son, Leo.
RYAN SINGEL, Staff Writer, Wired.com
Ryan Singel is a Wired.com staff writer who writes for both the Epicenter and Threat Level blogs. He covers privacy, tech policy, telecoms, search and transparency. His stories run the gamut, ranging from keeping a close eye on Google’s privacy practices to keeping tabs on the latest government data-mining project.
CHUCK SQUATRIGLIA, Senior Editor, Wired.com
Chuck Squatriglia leads Wired.com’s transportation blog, Autopia. He’s been a journalist since 1990 and a car guy since birth. He came to Wired.com in 2007 from the San Francisco Chronicle, where he had over the previous eight years served as staff writer, bureau chief and assistant metro editor. He likes cars, sushi and guitars — not necessarily in that order.
JASON TANZ, Senior Editor (New York Editor), Wired magazine
Jason Tanz heads up the Wired’s business coverage. Previously, he was a senior editor at Fortune Small Business, an editor at Fortune and a writer at SmartMoney magazine. As a freelance writer, he has covered everything from mah-jongg tournaments to “nerdcore” rap for Esquire, Spin, The New York Times and several other publications. He is also the author of Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America, which won rave reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post Book World and Publishers Weekly. Tanz lives in Montclair, NJ, with his wife and son.
FRED VOGELSTEIN, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine
Fred Vogelstein is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he writes about the world of high-tech business and finance. Since joining Wired in June 2006 and for five years before that as a senior writer at Fortune magazine, he has closely followed the meltdown and the comeback of Silicon Valley. In the process, he’s written extensively about the search and online advertising businesses, and more recently about the new communications revolution it has helped spawn. His recent Wired story about Yahoo’s problems presaged CEO Terry Semel’s resignation there, and his recent cover story about Microsoft’s successful effort to make its communications more transparent has helped drive change throughout high-tech public relations. Before Wired and Fortune, Vogelstein covered finance and high tech for US News & World Report during the internet bubble. He’s also worked at The Wall Street Journal, Newsday and local papers in New Haven, Connecticut, and Los Angeles. He has been a fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University and has a BA in political science from Pomona College.
LEWIS WALLACE, Culture Editor, Wired.com
Lewis Wallace manages Wired.com’s coverage of entertainment, art, videogames and internet memes for the culture blog, Underwire. Before joining Wired.com, he worked for TechTV, PC World, CNET and several newspapers and magazines. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he lives in San Francisco with his wife and two cats. He plays bass guitar in the squeezebox rock band Those Darn Accordions.
BILL WASIK, Senior Editor, Wired Magazine
Bill edits feature-length articles on technology, science, and culture. Prior to joining Wired in 2010, he was an editor at Harper’s Magazine for 10 years. 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 (summer 2012 from Viking). He lives in Oakland with his wife, son, and whippet.
JACOB “JAKE” YOUNG, Managing Editor, Wired magazine
Before joining Wired in 2006, Young worked as a correspondent and writer for Newsweek, and as an editor and development specialist at Time Inc. Young was founding editor of Who Weekly, the People spin-off published in Sydney, Australia, and editor of the South Pacific edition of Time. As development editor of Time Inc. and the People Group, he supervised the launches of People en Espanol, Teen People and People Profiles Books, and was part of the team that created editions of In Style in Germany, Australia and Great Britain. From 2001 to 2005, he was executive editor of Reader’s Digest. He and his wife, Marsha Robertson, live in San Francisco.
Kim is a senior reporter and award-winning journalist, covering privacy, security, cybercrime and civil liberties. She has been covering computer security and the hacking underground since 1999, first for PC World magazine, and then for Wired.com, where she has been reporting since 2003 and is currently a senior staff reporter. Last year on Wired.com, Zetter and colleague Kevin Poulsen broke the story about the arrest of Bradley Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking millions of classified U.S. government documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks. They continue to break news with ongoing developments in the story of Manning and WikiLeaks. She has broken numerous other stories over the years covering topics as diverse as Stuxnet, government surveillance, TJX hacker Albert Gonzalez, cyberbullying and electronic voting. Zetter was a finalist for a prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors award in 2005 and was voted one of the top 10 security reporters in the nation in 2010.
