Wired Magazine Makes Additions to Editorial Team

Posted on April 13, 1998

Wired Magazine announced the appointment of Chip Bayers to its editorial staff, as Senior Writer. One of HotWired's original employees, Bayers has been a regular contributor to Wired magazine for several years. His piece on the promise of one-to-one Web marketing is Wired's May cover story. Wired Magazine also welcomed four new contributing editors and a Hollywood correspondent.

Tibor Kalman, the founder of M&Co design group, founding editor of Colors magazine, as well as former Art Director at Art Forum and former Creative Director at Interview, will contribute a visual feature to Wired each month.

Steve Bodow, formerly Managing Editor of Individual Investor Online, the online edition of Individual Investor magazine, will edit Wired's new personal finance section in addition to writing for the magazine. Bodow's work has appeared in New York, Esquire, and Details as well as the online publications Slate, Feed and Suck.

Randall Rothenberg, formerly a senior writer at Esquire and an editor, columnist and reporter at The New York Times, will edit and write for the magazine. His article on the future of advertising appeared in Wired's January 1998 issue. Rothenberg's most recent book, Where the Suckers Moon: An Advertising Story -- a cultural anthropology of advertising -- was published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf.

Gary Wolf, who has contributed numerous stories to Wired, including the January 1996 cover story on Marshall McLuhan, will regularly write for the magazine. He had been at HotWired since its launch and was most recently an executive producer at Wired Digital.

Paula Parisi, who wrote the February 1998 cover story on Titanic director Jim Cameron, joins the magazine as Wired's Hollywood Correspondent. Parisi, who has covered numerous other filmmaker luminaries for Wired, is an editor-at-large at The Hollywood Reporter, where she was formerly an Executive Editor.