Status founder Oliver Darcy interviewed Wired editorial director Katie Drummond about its strategy.
In many ways, it seems that your tech reporters are really now politics reporters too?
In a majority of cases, I think you have to understand and closely track politics to successfully cover the tech industry right now. Or science, or culture, or security, or consumer tech. Basically, you can’t report for WIRED without politics being relevant; at the very least, it should be contextualizing how you approach your beat.
How can someone cover, say, Meta, without understanding the broader context around A.I. regulation, lobbying, and Mark Zuckerberg’s MAGA pivot? How can they write about consumer electronics without keeping close tabs on tariffs? How can they even start to write about climate change or health research without immediately veering into the Trump administration’s budget cuts or RFK Jr.’s anti-vax crusade? Very little for us is apolitical at this moment.
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