Katie Drummond

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Katie Drummond
Bornc. 1985/1986 (39–40)
Alma mater Queen's University at Kingston (BA)
OccupationJournalist
Employer Wired (magazine)

Katie Drummond is a Canadian-American journalist and the current global editorial director at Wired. She has also worked at Vice Media, Gizmodo, and Bloomberg. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Drummond was raised in Calgary. She attended Queen's University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 2008. [3] [4]

Career

After graduating from college, Drummond moved to New York. [5] In 2009, she joined Wired as an intern, covering military research for the magazine's national security blog. [6] In 2013, Drummond was hired by The Verge to run its new science section. [7] [8] She became assistant managing editor in April 2014. [9] In November 2014, Drummond became a deputy editor at Bloomberg Businessweek. The Verge founder Josh Topolsky had also departed for Bloomberg earlier that year. [10] A year later, Drummond was hired as editor-in-chief at Gizmodo. [11] After serving as executive managing editor for five months, Drummond left Gizmodo in April 2017 to become the first executive editor at The Outline, which Topolsky had founded the year before. [12] After leaving The Outline, Drummond worked for almost a year at Medium before she became a vice president at Vice Media in 2019, focusing on digital content. [13]

Wired

On August 10, 2023, Condé Nast announced that Drummond would return to Wired as global editorial editor, replacing Gideon Lichfield, who had served in the role since March 2021. [14] After the election of Donald Trump in 2024, Wired increasingly began focusing on political coverage, particularly of Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. [15] The magazine added over 62,000 new subscribers after Trump's re-election. [16]

Personal life

Drummond shares a daughter, Edith, with her husband Carl. [17] They live in Brooklyn. [18]

References

  1. "Wired Names Katie Drummond as Its Next Leader (Published 2023)". 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  2. Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (2015-11-16). "It's Always Some Gawker Season Somewhere". Observer. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  3. "Wired Names Katie Drummond as Its Next Leader (Published 2023)". 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  4. Mutha, Ya (2024-11-20). "Katie Drummond: Making headlines". mutha life. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  5. "Condé Nast". www.condenast.com. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  6. Roush, Chris (2014-11-21). "Businessweek hires Drummond from The Verge". Talking Biz News. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  7. April 22nd 2013, Paul Raeburn /. "The Verge launches new "science vertical" with Wired's Drummond as editor". Knight Science Journalism @MIT. Retrieved 2025-08-30.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. Drummond, Katie (2013-04-17). "Introducing Verge Science". The Verge. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  9. Roush, Chris (2014-11-21). "Businessweek hires Drummond from The Verge". Talking Biz News. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  10. Roush, Chris (2014-11-21). "Businessweek hires Drummond from The Verge". Talking Biz News. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  11. Bloomgarden-Smoke, Kara (2015-11-16). "It's Always Some Gawker Season Somewhere". Observer. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  12. Kafka, Peter (2017-04-03). "The Outline has hired Gizmodo Media's Katie Drummond as its first executive editor". Vox. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  13. Spangler, Todd (2019-03-25). "Vice Names Katie Drummond Senior VP of Digital". Variety. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  14. "Wired Names Katie Drummond as Its Next Leader (Published 2023)". 2023-08-10. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  15. Masquelier-Page, Alice (2025-02-28). "Not known for political coverage, Wired takes a leading role in tracking Elon Musk's team". The Associated Press. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  16. Kafka, Peter. "Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and DOGE helped Wired add 62,000 new subscribers in 2 weeks. Its editor told us how". Business Insider. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  17. Mutha, Ya (2024-11-20). "Katie Drummond: Making headlines". mutha life. Retrieved 2025-08-30.
  18. "Condé Nast". www.condenast.com. Retrieved 2025-08-30.