By Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke 11/02/12 3:19pm

The Long Tail

imgres

Chris Anderson is Leaving Wired

Wired’s editor in chief Chris Anderson announced today that he leaving the magazine to concentrate on 3D Robotics, a company he cofounded that makes DIY Drones. Mr. Anderson has been the mag’s EIC since 2001 and wrote the 2004 book The Long Tail. No successor has been named yet.

“This is an opportunity for me to pursue an entrepreneurial dream,” Mr. Anderson said in a statement. “I’m confident that Wired’s mission to influence and chronicle the digital revolution is stronger than ever and will continue to expand and

evolve.”

The internal email sent to Conde Nast staffers is below: Read More

By Nitasha Tiku 7/19/11 8:22pm

ScottDadichPhoto

Condé Nast Is Experiencing Technical Difficulties

Not long after Scott Dadich was appointed executive editor of digital magazine development for all of Condé Nast, “the tops of the mastheads,” as the senior editorial staffs are called, filed into the company’s fourth-floor lecture hall for a series of meetings. Condé’s new iPad king was holding court.

This wasn’t the first time the tastemakers of 4 Times Square had met Mr. Dadich. He’d been shopping “that Wired thing” around the company since it debuted in iTunes’ App Store in May 2010 to considerable fanfare and a flurry of downloads.

But this time, Mr. Dadich faced a few more sets of crossed arms. Read More

By Nick Summers 2/02/11 12:24am

Politics

(Scott Dvorin)

Talk To Me, Malcolm Gladwell!

“I think in the last year I’ve done, I want to say–it’s tough–a few dozen? Thirty to forty would be my guess?”

Jonah Lehrer, a contributing editor at Wired, was on the phone from Los Angeles Monday evening, trying to recall how many paid speeches he had delivered in 2010. Mr. Lehrer, 29, is the Read More

By John Koblin 5/01/09 1:06pm

The Understated, More Desperate National Magazine Awards

In the past the National Magazine Awards, the big show where the American Society of Magazine Editors gives out “Ellies” to the year’s big magazine winners, have been lavish affairs. Lots of drinks. Chocolate fondue. Gowns and black ties at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

But this year, with the industry falling to its knees, the Read More

By John Koblin 4/02/08 12:07am

Where Will Magazines Be Ten Years From Now?

In the next five years in Graydon Carter’s world, you’ll walk onto a plane, or a subway, or a soon-to-be-invented mode of transport, and you’ll tuck a little electronic book under your arm. Inside that little book, which will be very expensive at first but soon will cost $150, there’ll be a series of mylar Read More