Wired names Gideon Lichfield as its new prime editor.

Condé Nast has named Gideon Lichfield as Wired’s new global editor-in-chief.

Anna Wintour, Condé Nast’s chief content officer and Vogue’s global editor-in-chief, announced this in an internal memo on Tuesday.

“I am so happy that he is bringing his expertise to Wired and I am very much looking forward to the future of the title,” Ms. Wintour wrote in the memo. She said Mr. Lichfield will be responsible for both Wired US and Wired’s international editions, including in the UK, Italy and Japan.

Mr. Lichfield comes to Wired with extensive experience in technology and business journalism, most recently at MIT Technology Review, where he was Editor-in-Chief since 2017. In 2012 he helped launch the digital news site Quartz and was previously with The Economist.

Mr. Lichfield said in a Condé Nast press release that he was “thrilled to have the opportunity to work with Wired’s great journalists and develop his legacy”.

“Wired is iconic and vital in shaping the place of technology in culture,” he said.

It will begin on March 22nd.

The statement found that Wired saw web traffic grow 15 percent over the past year, reaching 44 million people a month across all platforms.

Nicholas Thompson, who became Wired Editor-in-Chief in 2017, was named Chief Executive of The Atlantic in December.

The Shuffle at Wired is the latest in a string of industry shifts as a multitude of publications look for top editors. Vox Media announced The Atlantic’s Swati Sharma as the new Editor-in-Chief of Vox.com in February. The Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Reuters, and HuffPost continue their search.

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