Wired UK to launch in 2009
This was on MediaGuardian.co.uk today. The magazine does not launch until 2009, but talented journalists with a passion for Wired are welcome to register their interest as contributors c/o web [AT] davidrowan [DOT] com.
Stephen Brook, Press Correspondent
guardian.co.uk,
Monday June 30, 2008
Conde Nast will launch a UK version of Wired magazine and its accompanying website next year and has hired the Jewish Chronicle's editor, David Rowan, to edit it.
The UK debut issue of the monthly technology magazine will arrive on newsstands in the first half of 2009.
Conde Nast bought Wired, which started in San Francisco in 1993, in 1998.
The publisher will also launch a version of Wired in Italy early next year, prior to the UK launch. The editor will be Riccardo Luna.
"Wired is the market-leading magazine about how technology is changing the world; a highly influential and visionary title that explores ideas and innovation, culture, politics and business, and how technology impacts on contemporary civilisation," said Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Conde Nast.
Jamie Jouning, associate publisher of GQ since 2004, has been appointed as publisher of Wired. Jamie Bill, publishing director of GQ since 2003, will oversee both titles as publishing director.
Rowan has edited the Jewish Chronicle since 2006, having previously worked at the Guardian for 10 years, where he launched the weekly Editor magazine, ran the opinion, education and Saturday features sections and was editor of GuardianUnlimited.
The UK edition of Wired will launch after the Italian version. Wired reports on how technology affects culture, business, the economy and politics.
Rowan will leave the Jewish Chronicle later in the year and is negotiating a leaving date with the newspaper.
"I got offered something that was too exciting not to take up," he said.
"When I got approached by the best magazine publisher in the world for the most exciting magazine - I thought 'wow'."
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Stephen Brook, Press Correspondent
guardian.co.uk,
Monday June 30, 2008
Conde Nast will launch a UK version of Wired magazine and its accompanying website next year and has hired the Jewish Chronicle's editor, David Rowan, to edit it.
The UK debut issue of the monthly technology magazine will arrive on newsstands in the first half of 2009.
Conde Nast bought Wired, which started in San Francisco in 1993, in 1998.
The publisher will also launch a version of Wired in Italy early next year, prior to the UK launch. The editor will be Riccardo Luna.
"Wired is the market-leading magazine about how technology is changing the world; a highly influential and visionary title that explores ideas and innovation, culture, politics and business, and how technology impacts on contemporary civilisation," said Nicholas Coleridge, managing director of Conde Nast.
Jamie Jouning, associate publisher of GQ since 2004, has been appointed as publisher of Wired. Jamie Bill, publishing director of GQ since 2003, will oversee both titles as publishing director.
Rowan has edited the Jewish Chronicle since 2006, having previously worked at the Guardian for 10 years, where he launched the weekly Editor magazine, ran the opinion, education and Saturday features sections and was editor of GuardianUnlimited.
The UK edition of Wired will launch after the Italian version. Wired reports on how technology affects culture, business, the economy and politics.
Rowan will leave the Jewish Chronicle later in the year and is negotiating a leaving date with the newspaper.
"I got offered something that was too exciting not to take up," he said.
"When I got approached by the best magazine publisher in the world for the most exciting magazine - I thought 'wow'."
...
posted by David Rowan at Monday, June 30, 2008
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