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Gideon Lichfield (born 4, August, 1971) is a British journalist who served as global editorial director and editor-in-chief of Wired magazine from March 2021[1] until August 2023[2] and before that as editor-in-chief of MIT Technology Review.[3]
Lichfield began his journalism career in 1996 at The Economist, where he started on the science desk before becoming the title's correspondent in Mexico City, Moscow and Jerusalem.[4] He then moved to New York City and held various roles, including editorial head of Economist Education, an internal startup aimed at business executives.
Lichfield had a one-year fellowship at the Data & Society Research Institute,[5][6] where he wrote science fiction pieces exploring the social and political implications of technological advances. He also served as an adjunct professor at New York University, teaching a graduate course in foreign reporting at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
Lichfield was one of the founding editors at Quartz. Hired at the company's inception in 2012, he led the newsroom, developed the ethics policy and style guide, and edited the Quartz Daily Brief newsletter.[7][8][9]
In December 2017, Lichfield moved to MIT Technology Review as editor-in-chief, overseeing the publication's editorial content and products, including the website, digital newsletters, print magazine and live events, as well as new platforms and formats under development.[3][10] While at MIT he edited Make Shift: Dispatches from the Post-Pandemic Future, a speculative-fiction anthology published in May 2021 by MIT Press, with stories from writers including Madeline Ashby, Indrapramit Das, Ken Liu, Malka Older, and Cory Doctorow.[11]
2021年3月22日、リッチフィールドはWiredのグローバル編集ディレクターおよびWired USの編集長に任命された。 [ 1 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ]グローバル編集ディレクターとして、リッチフィールドは同社がタイトルを所有および運営する市場におけるWiredのすべてのプラットフォームの全体的なコンテンツ戦略、ビジョン、およびトーンを設定した。[ 14 ] [ 15 ]リッチフィールドはWired USの6人目の編集長であり、最初のグローバル編集ディレクターであった。彼のリーダーシップの下、同タイトルはスペイン語版であるWired en Españolを立ち上げ、[ 16 ]米国、英国、イタリア、および日本での既存の版に加えて、
リッチフィールドは2023年6月に、9月までに、あるいは後任が見つかればそれより早く、Wiredの編集長を辞任すると発表した。[ 17 ] [ 18 ] 2023年8月28日、ケイティ・ドラモンドが後任となった。[ 2 ]