In hiring three reporters and two editors for a new politics team, Drummond said “the bet that we made was that this sort of Venn diagram between business and politics would become increasingly vital for a publication like Wired to cover.”.
“Remember when Wired was focused on cutting-edge technology and how young college dropout founders could change the world?” conservative influencer Charlie Kirk wrote on X, including a screenshot of a Wired story.
Drummond's media career began as a Wired intern in 2009, and she returned home after being senior vice president of global news and entertainment at Vice Media.
In a hard-hitting piece this week, Brian Barrett outlined a week's worth of mistakes by the young government efficiency team, including being forced to hire back employees belatedly deemed critical and claiming $8 billion in savings on a project when it was actually $8 million.
“This is what adversarial journalism looks like,” media critic Parker Molloy wrote on her blog, “The Present Age.” “Instead of just transcribing what powerful people say, Wired's reporters dig into what they're actually doing.
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