CHAMPION OF A BETTER FUTURE

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Wired magazine feels like it’s been around forever. And perhaps these days any media that has been around for over 30 years qualifies as forever.

It has, certainly, been around during the entirety of the digital age. It has been witness to the birth of the internet, of social media, of cellphones, and of AI. It feels like an institution as well as an authority for a certain kind of subject. But what is that subject? Because Wired is not just a tech publication. It never was.

Katie Drummond is the editorial director of Wired, a position she has held for just over a year. This job is the closing of a circle in a sense, because her first job in media was as an intern at Wired. She has worked almost exclusively in digital media since, for a range of outfits, many of them shuttered—proof of the vagaries and the reality of media in the digital age.

At Wired, Drummond oversees a robust digital presence, including video, the print publication, as well as Wired offices in places like Italy, Mexico, and Japan. She says that Wired “champions a better future.” Meaning Wired seems like the publication of the moment in many ways, at the intersection of tech, culture, politics, and the environment.

This is our first show of the second season and we’re going to continue to speak to the people creating the magazines of the future today. Thanks for joining us.

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