In the late aughts, Wired.com (the online news side NOT the magazine side) experimented by launching multiple standalone blogs with a lot of editorial independence: Danger Room, Threat Level, Gadget Lab, Wired Science and more
When the mag staff got final site control, they dumped all of the blogs, despite their success and reader loyalty
Katie Drummond wrote for Danger Room
Today she got named worldwide Wired EIC
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/business/media/wired-katie-drummond.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Hoping she brings that model back
Ryan Singel /
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2023-08-10 18:29:30
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