Katie Drummond will be the next top editor of Wired, overseeing the tech publication’s teams around the world. Condé Nast, the publisher of Wired, announced on Thursday the appointment of Ms. Drummond as its global editorial director. Ms. Drummond joins from Vice Media, where she was the senior vice president of global news and entertainment, in charge of Vice News and the company’s digital brands. Ms. Drummond will be the first woman to lead Wired in its 30-year history. Ms. Drummond, 37, was an intern at Wired in 2009.

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Persons: Katie Drummond, Condé Nast, Drummond, Ms, Gideon Lichfield, Lichfield, ” Organizations: Wired, Vice Media, News Locations: United States, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Britain