Katie Drummond | |
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 At the WEF Annual Meeting in 2025 | |
| Born | c. 1985/1986 (39–40) |
| Alma mater | Queen's University at Kingston (BA) |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Employer | Wired |
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]
Drummond was raised in Calgary. She attended Queen's University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 2008. [3] [4]
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]
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]
As of 2024, Drummond is married and has a daughter. [17] They live in Brooklyn, New York City. [18]