Wired at Heart
Physicist-turned-journalist Chris Anderson becomes Wired magazine's new editor.
By
Kathryn S. Wenner
Kathryn S. Wenner, a former AJR associate editor, is a copy editor at the Washington Post.
The Economist 's U.S. business editor, Chris Anderson , wins the editor in chief spot at Wired magazine. Anderson, 39, started out as a physicist, then switched to science journalism in 1988. He worked for Science and Nature before landing at the Economist in 1994. "I always had a passion for technology," Anderson says of his physics pursuits, but he had journalism in his blood, too. His father, former UPI reporter Jim Anderson (and occasional AJR contributor), was "the Helen Thomas of the State Department," in his son's words, before going to Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH , the German Press Agency. Anderson replaces Katrina Heron , who took the helm a few months before Wired was purchased by Condé Nast and left after three years to devote more time to her daughters.
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