PRESS CENTER

CHRIS ANDERSON, Editor in Chief, Wired magazine
Chris Anderson was named in April 2007 to the "Time 100," the news magazine's list of the 100 men and women whose power, talent or moral example is transforming the world. He is editor in chief of Wired magazine, a position he took in 2001, and led the magazine to six National Magazine Award nominations, winning the prestigious top prize for general excellence in 2005 and 2007. He is the author of The New York Times best-seller The Long Tail, which is based on an influential 2004 article published in Wired, and runs a blog on the subject at www.thelongtail.com. He is also founder of Booktour.com, a free online service that connects authors on tour with potential audiences. Previously he was at The Economist, where he served as U.S. business editor, Asia business editor and technology editor. He started The Economist's internet coverage in 1994 and directed its initial web strategy. Anderson's media career began at the two premier science journals, Nature and Science, where he served in several editorial capacities.

CHRIS BAKER, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Chris Baker writes and edits articles about video games and other geeky topics. He also edits the monthly "Found" page, which envisions an unusual object from the future, as well as the monthly "Japanese Schoolgirl Watch," a look at the latest fashions and gadgets favored by the most avant-garde consumer bloc on the planet. In the past, Baker has also contributed to Slate, Spin, Entertainment Weekly, Blender, Maxim, Giant Robot, Film Threat, EGM and the 1-Up zine.

JOE BROWN, Associate Editor, Wired magazine
Joe Brown covers new, forward-looking gadgets for Wired, digging up the most lust-worthy fare for the "Fetish" section. Prior to joining Wired, Brown was editor of Popular Science's "What's New" section. Before that he worked as an auto mechanic, restaurant line cook and forest ranger. Brown graduated from Cornell University.

MICHAEL CALORE, Staff Writer, Wired.com
Michael Calore directs the software coverage at Wired.com and edits the longest-running Wired blog, Compiler. Previously, Calore was the editor-in-chief of Webmonkey, the web developer tutorial site. From 2000 to 2006, during which time Webmonkey was a Wired.com property, he wrote and edited instructional articles about programming, browser compatibility, web standards and software utilities. Calore has also worked as a technical writer for Linksys, Sony and ETrade. Before writing about technology, he covered the snowboarding and skateboarding industries as a journalist. Calore is a musician and a cyclist, two passions he writes about on his personal site, snackfight.com. He also plays regularly as a DJ in San Francisco.

ROBERT CAPPS, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Robert Capps edits feature articles on subjects ranging from business to science, movies to cybercrime. He also co-edits the magazine's front-of-book "Start" section. He has written about robots, hackers, mercenaries, federal election laws, digital rights management schemes, and video games. Previously, he was the editor in chief of MacAddict magazine and an investigative reporting fellow at Salon.com. He currently lives in San Francisco, teaches karate in Sausalito, and studies the history of materials science at Stanford University. You can occasionally find him losing badly in pick-up basketball games around the city.

BOB COHN, Executive Editor, Wired magazine
Bob Cohn oversees all editorial aspects of the magazine, helping to supervise a staff of 40 journalists and dozens of freelancers. Under his leadership, Wired has been nominated for eight National Magazine Awards, winning for General Excellence in 2005 and 2007. Prior to joining Wired in 2001, Cohn worked for 10 years in Newsweek's Washington bureau, where first he covered the Supreme Court and Justice Department, and then served as White House correspondent. He was also editor and publisher of Stanford magazine, which was named best university publication in the country during his tenure, and executive editor at The Industry Standard. A graduate of Stanford and the Yale Law School master's program, Cohn lives with his wife and two daughters in Northern California.

MARTY CORTINAS, Managing Editor, Wired.com
Marty Cortinas is the managing editor of Wired.com. Before starting at Wired in 2003, Cortinas edited at the Mesa Tribune, Modesto Bee, Oakland Tribune, MacWEEK and Peachpit Press, where he learned more than he needed to know about JavaScript. Somewhere along the line he found time to contribute to two editions of The Macintosh Bible, produce a weekly column about Apple for the late TechWeb, write a book about online poker and play in the World Series of Poker. He currently finds pot-limit Omaha profitable.

SCOTT DADICH, Creative Director, Wired magazine
Scott Dadich came to Wired in 2006 to oversee design, photography, illustration and typography. After his first year, the magazine won a prestigious National Magazine Award for General Excellence. His September 2006 cover with Stephen Colbert was named Best Celebrity Cover by the American Society of Magazine Editors, and his 2007 redesign was hailed as elegant and provocative. Previously, Dadich was creative director of Texas Monthly. During his tenure in Austin, the magazine was nominated for 14 National Magazine Awards and won for General Excellence. He has received more than 50 national design and editorial awards. In 2005 and 2006, the City and Regional Magazine Association named him Designer of the Year, and Print named him one of its 20 Under 30 breakthrough visual talents in the world. A native of Lubbock, Texas, Dadich now lives in San Francisco.

DANIEL "DANNY" DUMAS, Associate Editor, Wired magazine and Wired.com
Danny Dumas assigns and edits all reviews that appear on Wired's Gadget Lab blog and assists with product coverage for the magazine. Before joining Wired, Danny wrote about portable technology at Mobile PC magazine. A graduate of San Francisco State University, he has also worked as a caddy, electronics salesman and English tutor. He's currently the best Halo 3 player at Wired.

TED GREENWALD, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Senior editor Ted Greenwald covers a variety of feature topics in business, science and technology. He heads up the annual Wired 40 list of innovative companies and the Geekipedia supplement. Before he joined Wired in 2000, he was editor in chief of 3D, a technical and creative resource for graphic artists, and InterActivity, for multimedia developers. Greenwald has held editorial posts at Musician and Keyboard magazines; contributed monthly columns to Guitar Player, EQ and Creem, and he has penned books including The Long & Winding Road and The Rock & Roll Companion. Apart from journalism, he has composed music for Comedy Central and Nickelodeon as well as radio and television commercials. His music has been released on CD by the Windham Hill and Sonic Atmospheres labels.

THOMAS GOETZ, Deputy Editor, Wired magazine
Thomas Goetz is responsible for Wired's packages and cultural coverage. He acts as the magazine's trend-spotter, helming recent issues on human enhancement, remix culture and the "How To" edition. In addition to guiding editorial content, Goetz has written cover stories on the future of television, open-source software and the making of a disease. He has been a staff reporter at The Wall Street Journal and the Village Voice, and was executive editor at the Industry Standard, the late but lauded news magazine of the internet economy. Goetz has written for The New York Times Magazine, Details, Rolling Stone and many other publications. He graduated from Bates College, holds a master's degree in American literature from the University of Virginia and recently completed a master's of public health from the University of California at Berkeley. He plays the cello.

EVAN HANSEN, Editor In Chief, Wired.com
Before joining the Wired.com team, Evan Hansen led Cal Law, one of the first profitable websites, and later headed CNET News.com's internet and consumer coverage. He has won numerous awards for his coverage of media and technology, most recently qualifying as a finalist for the Gerald Loeb Award in 2006. Under his leadership, Wired.com has launched a successful blog network and explored transparent reporting methods while consistently breaking major international news stories. In 2006, the site published previously unreported details of the NSA's secret domestic wiretap program and also conducted a months-long, computer-assisted reporting project into sex offenders on MySpace. That series led to the arrest of a convicted pedophile just weeks before the social networking site agreed to change its sex offender policy.

JEFF HOWE, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine
Jeff Howe covers the media and entertainment industry, among other subjects. Before coming to Wired he was a senior editor at Inside.com and a writer at the Village Voice. In his 15 years as a journalist, Howe has traveled around the world working on stories ranging from the impending water crisis in Central Asia to the implications of gene patenting. He has written for U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post and Mother Jones. In June 2006 he published "The Rise of Crowdsourcing" in Wired magazine and has continued to cover the phenomenon in his blog, crowdsourcing.com. He is currently writing a book on the subject for Crown Books. Howe lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Alysia Abbott, their daughter Annabel Rose and a miniature black lab named Clementine.

LEANDER KAHNEY, News Editor, Wired.com
Along with wrangling breaking technology stories as news editor of Wired.com, Leander Kahney has written two award-winning books about technology culture, Cult of Mac and Cult of iPod. As news editor, Kahney is responsible for the daily news at Wired.com, overseeing a team of section editors and reporters. Kahney was promoted to news editor from managing editor in August 2007. Kahney has covered technology for more than a dozen years. He has written for Wired magazine, Scientific American, The Observer in London and many other publications.

MARK HOROWITZ, New York Editor, Wired magazine
Prior to joining Wired, Mark Horowitz was executive editor at Men's Journal, where he helped editor in chief Michael Caruso lead the magazine to record-breaking growth in newsstand and ad sales, as well as several National Magazine Award nominations. Before working at Men's Journal, Mark was at New York magazine, The New York Times Magazine and Los Angeles magazine. Prior to becoming a magazine editor 10 years ago, Horowitz was a successful magazine writer based in Los Angeles. He wrote "Power Brokers," a monthly political column for Buzz, and he wrote features about politics and culture for many top national magazines. Before becoming a journalist, Horowitz worked full time in film and television, both in New York and Los Angeles. Horowitz attended Swarthmore College and graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in history.

MARK MCCLUSKY, Products Editor, Wired magazine
Mark McClusky directs all of the magazine's gear and gadget coverage. Previously, McClusky was managing editor of Wired.com, an editor at Mobile PC magazine, editor in chief of EA.com, and a reporter and editor at Sports Illustrated and Sports Illustrated for Kids magazines. He's written about Chicago's avant-garde chef Grant Achatz and sports drug czar Dick Pound, and has covered the Olympics and the World Series. McClusky is an avid cook and studied at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa. He lives in Oakland, California with his wife and daughter.

NANCY MILLER, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Nancy Miller is a Senior Editor at Wired and oversees much of the magazine's entertainment and pop culture coverage. Prior to Wired, Nancy was a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly and an on-air correspondent and freelance producer for "The Business," an NPR-distributed radio program recorded at KCRW in Santa Monica, CA. She currently lives in San Francisco with her scooter, a Vespa named Brenda.

WYATT MITCHELL, Design Director, Wired magazine
Wyatt Mitchell joined the Wired editorial art department in 2007, bringing a broad range of magazine experience. Previously, Mitchell has held titles at VIBE, Esquire, Details and O, The Oprah Magazine. He has received over 30 national design and editorial awards from groups such as the Society of Publication Designers, Print magazine and Communication Arts. In his spare time he practices to become the oldest important jazz pianist.

KEVIN POULSEN, Senior Editor, Wired.com
Kevin Poulsen oversees cybercrime, privacy, defense and political coverage at Wired.com, and he co-edits the Threat Level blog. He previously served as editor of the award-winning computer security news site SecurityFocus, acquired by Symantec in 2002, where his investigative reporting was frequently followed by the national press. Poulsen's byline has appeared in Wired magazine, Business 2.0 and other publications, and he's been interviewed by CNN, ABC News, CBS News, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the BBC, NPR and other outlets. In 2006, Poulsen's computer-assisted investigation into the presence of registered sex offenders on MySpace resulted in the arrest of an active pedophile, and led to policy changes at MySpace and federal legislation.

MARK ROBINSON, Articles Editor, Wired magazine
Mark Robinson covers the impact of technology on everything from television and religion to baldness cures and cream-cheese manufacturing. Prior to joining Wired in 2001, Robinson was an editor for the Industry Standard, overseeing coverage of the media industry. He also spent six years as a daily newspaper reporter, hopping from California to Pennsylvania to North Carolina. Originally from Silicon Valley, Robinson attended Stanford University's master's program in journalism.

ADAM ROGERS, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Adam Rogers edits feature stories about science, politics, military and law-enforcement technology. Before Wired, he spent eight years as a reporter for Newsweek, focusing primarily on science, technology and medicine from the magazine's New York, Boston and Washington bureaus. In 2002 and 2003, Rogers was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he studied the intersection of urban theory, ecology and public health. Rogers, a native of Los Angeles, earned a master's degree from the Boston University graduate program in science writing and an undergraduate degree from Pomona College in Claremont, California. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife and son.

FRANK ROSE, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine
Frank Rose covers media and entertainment from a global perspective. During his career he has chronicled the 21st-century aspirations of such luminaries as Steve Jobs, Steven Spielberg and Barry Diller, as well as the move toward digital empowerment that's given consumers unprecedented control in everything from video to advertising. Rose has also led debates about the future of media at such venues as the Cannes Film Festival and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Formerly a contributing writer at Fortune and contributing editor at Esquire, Rose has written extensively about the Hollywood entertainment industry and about digital technologies for a number of years. In addition, Rose has authored several books, including The Agency (HarperCollins, 1995), which is about William Morris and the evolution of show business, and West of Eden (Viking, 1989), which discusses the power struggle between Steve Jobs and John Sculley at Apple Computer.

Daniel Roth, Senior Writer, Wired magazine
Daniel Roth writes about business for Wired. Prior to joining Wired, Roth served as senior writer at Condé Nast Portfolio and was a senior editor at Fortune. He served as Fortune's tech editor from 2002 to 2004, overseeing all of the IT coverage as well as the Austin, Palo Alto and San Francisco bureaus. Roth's 2006 profile of Bram Cohen, founder of the tech firm BitTorrent, was selected to appear in the anthology The Best American Science and Nature Writing. His story on the founders of Skype won Best Story on Entrepreneurship at the 2005 Business Journalist of the Year Awards. Roth is a five-time winner of the TJFR Business News Reporter's Top 30 Business Journalists Under the Age of 30. Roth graduated with a B.S. from Northwestern University. He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

NOAH SHACHTMAN, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine and Wired.com
Noah Shachtman is the editor of Wired.com' Danger Room blog. He also writes about technology, national security, politics and geek culture for The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune and others. Since 1998, he's been reporting for Wired.com and Wired magazine on a variety of subjects: defusing roadside explosives with a Baghdad bomb squad, sneaking into the Los Alamos nuclear lab, chasing down suspects on Chicago's West Side, investigating a triple homicide in Tacoma, Washington, and undergoing experiments by Pentagon-funded scientists at Stanford. In the past, Schachtman has written articles for Esquire, Popular Science, the New York Post and The New York Times Magazine. He's been interviewed by the Associated Press, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, CBS radio, NPR and BBC radio, among many others. Before turning to journalism, Schachtman worked as a professional bass player, book editor and campaign staffer on Bill Clinton's first presidential campaign. He lives in New York City and Venice Beach, California, with his wife, Elizabeth.

RYAN SINGEL, Staff Writer, Wired.com
Ryan Singel is a Wired.com staff writer and co-edits the Threat Level blog. He covers privacy, security, tech policy, internet freedom and civil liberties. His stories run the gamut, ranging from keeping a close eye on Google's privacy practices to keeping tabs on the latest government data-mining project. His work for Wired.com includes exposing JetBlue's secret handover of its passenger database to the government and the publishing of secret documents at the heart of a lawsuit against AT&T; for allegedly helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans. Before becoming a journalist, Singel worked for several natural language search companies during the first internet bubble and edited master's theses in Taiwan. He lives in San Francisco with his five bikes.

JASON TANZ, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Jason Tanz heads up the magazine's business coverage. Previously, he was a senior editor at Fortune Small Business, an editor at Fortune and a writer at SmartMoney magazine. As a freelance writer, he has covered everything from mah-jongg tournaments to "nerdcore" rap for Esquire, Spin, The New York Times and several other publications. He is also the author of Other People's Property: A Shadow History of Hip-Hop in White America, which won rave reviews in the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post Book World, Rolling Stone and Publishers Weekly. Tanz lives in San Francisco with his wife.

NICHOLAS "NICK" THOMPSON, Senior Editor, Wired magazine
Nick Thompson covers the internet and politics, business trends, open sourcing, technology and science, and legal issues. Prior to joining Wired, he was a senior editor at Legal Affairs magazine and the Washington Monthly. Thompson has also written freelance pieces about technology for The New York Times, The Washington Post, Slate, Newsweek, Los Angeles Times and many other publications. He is particularly knowledgeable about search engines, online video, the way that the internet is affecting politics, and open-source software. Because of his background at Legal Affairs magazine, Thompson is a frequent commentator on issues that concern law and technology. He has also appeared on Regis & Kelly, the Today Show, the O'Reilly Factor, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, NPR, WNYC and many other TV and radio shows. He is currently a regular guest on Fox News Live and is the voice of Wired for its weekly CBS news radio broadcasts. Last year, he was a finalist for a Livingston award for best writing by a journalist under 35. In addition, Thompson is currently writing a book for Henry Holt called The Hawk and The Dove.

DYLAN TWENEY, Senior Editor, Wired.com
Dylan Tweney is responsible for the site's business, gadgets and hardware coverage. Previously, he was founding editorial director of PCMagCast.com, executive editor at Mobile PC magazine and a columnist at Business 2.0. Tweney was also an editor at InfoWorld and PC/Computing. His work has won two Maggie awards from the Western Magazine Publishers' Association, an Editorial Excellence Award from the American Society of Business Publication Editors, and a Fame award from Folio magazine. In addition to editing for Wired.com, Dylan also runs tinywords, the world's smallest magazine, which has published one original haiku every weekday since 2000.

FRED VOGELSTEIN, Contributing Editor, Wired magazine
Fred Vogelstein is a contributing editor at Wired magazine, where he writes about the world of high-tech business and finance. Since joining Wired in June 2006 and for five years before that as a senior writer at Fortune magazine, he has closely followed the meltdown and the comeback of Silicon Valley. In the process, he's written extensively about the search and online advertising businesses, and more recently about the new communications revolution it has helped spawn. His recent Wired story about Yahoo's problems presaged CEO Terry Semel's resignation there, and his recent cover story about Microsoft's successful effort to make its communications more transparent has helped drive change throughout high-tech public relations. Before Wired and Fortune, Vogelstein covered finance and high tech for US News & World Report during the internet bubble. He's also worked at The Wall Street Journal, Newsday and local papers in New Haven, Connecticut, and Los Angeles. He has been a fellow in economics and business journalism at Columbia University and has a BA in political science from Pomona College.

JACOB "JAKE" YOUNG, Managing Editor, Wired magazine
Before joining the Wired team in 2006, Young worked as a correspondent and writer for Newsweek, and as an editor and development specialist at Time Inc. Young was founding editor of Who Weekly, the People spin-off published in Sydney, Australia, and editor of the South Pacific edition of Time. As development editor of Time Inc. and the People Group, he supervised the launches of People en Espanol, Teen People and People Profiles Books, and was part of the team that created editions of In Style in Germany, Australia and Great Britain. From 2001 to 2005, he was executive editor of Reader's Digest. He and his wife, Marsha Robertson, live in San Francisco.