Wired (magazine)

History and Ownership - Founded by Louis Rossetto, Jane Metcalfe, and Ian Charles Stewart in 1993 - Initial backing from software entrepreneur Charlie Jackson and Nicholas Negroponte - Debut at the Macworld conference on January 2, 1993 - Won two National Magazine Awards for General Excellence in its first four years - Wired magazine and Wired News had separate owners from 1998 to 2006 - Condé Nast bought Wired News for $25 million in 2006, reuniting the magazine with its website - Wired Ventures attempted to go public with an IPO in 1996, but the attempts were unsuccessful - Wired Ventures was purchased by Advance Publications, which assigned it to Condé Nast Publications Spin-offs and Expansion - Launched Wired UK, Wired Italia, Wired Japan, and Wired Germany - Wired UK was relaunched in April 2009 - HotWired spawned websites Webmonkey, HotBot, and Suck.com - Wired launched the Italian edition in 2009 - The UK edition of Wired was relaunched in 2009 Influence and Recognition - Founding editor and publisher Louis Rossetto had a strong influence on the magazine's editorial outlook - Recognized as the voice of the emerging digital culture - Won several National Magazine Awards for both editorial and design - Acknowledged as Adweek's Magazine of the Decade in 2021 - Contributor Chris Anderson popularized the term 'the long tail' Notable Contributions - Coined the term 'crowdsourcing' - Introduced the annual tradition of Vaporware Awards - Published the story that became the movie Argo - Known for deep investigative reporting, including a story on Facebook - Published the iconic June 1997 cover featuring the Apple logo with a stylized crown of thorns Leadership Changes and Website - Scott Dadich was editor-in-chief from 2012-2014 and conducted an interview with Edward Snowden - Nicholas Thompson, an editor at The New Yorker, became editor in 2017 - In 2021, Thompson left and was replaced by Gideon Lichfield - In 2022, Conde Nast's CEO stated that Wired does not operate in China due to news-related censorship - In August 2023, Katie Drummond was announced as the new editor of Wired - Wired.com, formerly known as Wired News and HotWired, launched in October 1994 - Wired.com and the magazine were split in the late 1990s but reunited when Condé Nast purchased Wired News in 2006 - Wired.com is currently paywalled as of August 2023 - Wired.com hosts several technology blogs on various topics - Wired had a supplement called Geekipedia