Ana Vidal Egea of El Pais interviewed Wired global editorial director Katie Drummond about its emphasis covering how technology is impacting politics.
Question. As soon as you joined Wired, you made a strategic shift and began covering politics for the first time. What led you to do this?
Answer. The first thing I did was hire a politics editor and three politics reporters. I built a new team to cover politics for two primary reasons. One was that, looking ahead to 2024, there was a U.S. presidential election that was going to be extremely consequential for the country and the world. [And] there were also an unprecedented number of elections happening around the world.
[All of this was combined] with the fact that politics and technology are now very difficult to pick apart. [They’re] deeply intertwined, with everything from how generative AI influences and impacts voters and their access to information, to hacking and foreign interference in the electoral processes of different countries, to the influence and the pocketbooks of the wealthiest people in Silicon Valley, like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman… how they align themselves politically is incredibly important. If Wired is all about covering what’s next – covering the future and being very technologically forward-thinking – we had to start covering politics and taking it very seriously.
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