Bill Wasik

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Bill Wasik

During my 25 years as a magazine editor, my favorite part of the job has always been helping writers figure out what the story is: where to start it, where to end it, what’s important and new about it. So it was with no small amount of humility that, earlier this year, I sat in a Google corporate cafeteria along the West Side of Manhattan and watched as one of my longtime writers — Steven Johnson, the technology journalist and historian — received that kind of guidance from an A.I. instead of me.

Feb 11, 2025 | counterpunch.org | Bill Wasik |Monica Murphy

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era beginning in 1866, with the founding of the first animal welfare society. It is a story of activism and activists like George Thorndike Angell, Henry Bergh, and Caroline Earle White, who propelled the anti-cruelty cause forward.

Feb 7, 2025 | slguardian.org | Monica Murphy |Bill Wasik

For the nonhuman animal cause, the 19th century’s end would bring to a close a defining period—a transformative 30-year era beginning in 1866, with the founding of the first animal welfare society. It is a story of activism and activists like George Thorndike Angell, Henry Bergh, and Caroline Earle White, who propelled the anti-cruelty cause forward.

Feb 7, 2025 | nationofchange.org | Bill Wasik |Monica Murphy

This is an adapted excerpt from Our Kindred Creatures: How Americans Came to Feel the Way They Do About Animals by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy (Knopf Doubleday, 2024). It is licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) by permission of Knopf Doubleday. This adaptation was produced for the web by Earth | Food | Life, a project of the Independent Media Institute. Bill Wasik is the editorial director of the New York Times Magazine.

Jul 9, 2024 | editorandpublisher.com | Jim Yardley |Jake Silverstein |Bill Wasik

After nine years at Opinion, Max Strasser will shepherd Ideas, tapping into big thinking around the newsroom. Almost a year ago, Joe asked us to create a new initiative for ideas journalism at The Times. The premise was this: In a complex and changing world, there’s a huge and untapped opportunity for our journalists to take on deep, explanatory pieces that introduce the ideas shaping the beats they report on. This impulse led, last October, to the creation of a new weekly feature, slugged Ideas.