Nate Lanxon

Nate William Charles Lanxon (born 15 December 1984)[1] is a British technology journalist and podcaster. He lives in London, England. Lanxon is an editor and writer at Bloomberg News, having formerly been editor of Wired.co.uk at Condé Nast, the online arm of Wired Magazine. Previously, he was a Senior Editor at CNET.

Nate Lanxon
Born
William Charles Lanxon Fisher

(1984-12-15) 15 December 1984
Sheffield, England
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist

In October 2014 it was announced[2] Conde Nast would launch a British version of Ars Technica, led by Lanxon as editor-in-chief,[3] with a London-based team working under him to produce local editorial content. Ken Fisher, founder and editor-in-chief of Ars Technica in the United States, would oversee the publication from a brand perspective. Lanxon ended up accepting a position at Bloomberg instead.

Background

Lanxon has written for or spoken on media outlets including Ars Technica,[4] BBC television and radio,[5] Channel 4,[6] CNN,[7] The Sunday Times, The Metro,[8] Sky News and Wired magazine.

He appeared as an expert judge on one episode of the 2011 series of the BBC’s programme The Apprentice.[9]

Lanxon was shortlisted for the British Society of Magazine Editors' award for Editor Of The Year in 2010,[10] 2011,[11] and again in 2013.[12]

Podcasting

Lanxon currently co-hosts the technology podcast Tech's Message[13] with fellow journalist Ian Morris. In 2017, the show was shortlisted for the Webby Award for 'Best Technology Podcast'.[14]

From 2010[15] to 2014, Lanxon was the host and producer of Wired UK's weekly technology podcast,[16][17] during which time the show reached number one in the UK iTunes Podcast charts.[18]

Previously, Lanxon was the host of CNET's weekly technology podcast in the UK. His younger brother, Andrew Lanxon, went on to host this show in his capacity as senior editor[19] at CNET.

References
  1. Lanxon, Nate. "Official Website". www.natelanxon.com. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  2. Degun, Gurjit. "Condé Nast to launch Ars Technica in UK". Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  3. Sedgwick, Chris. "Ars Technica to launch in the UK". Retrieved 23 October 2014.
  4. "Interview: Steve Wozniak on new iPhones, smart watches, Google Glass, and more".
  5. "The limitations of slender netbooks". BBC.co.uk. BBC.
  6. "Game over for high street computer store?". Channel4.
  7. "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS". CNN.
  8. "Vint Cerf: Let's extend the internet across the solar system". Metro.
  9. "The Apprentice does mobile apps". BBC.
  10. "The Editorial Oscars". VOGUE.
  11. "2011 BSME Awards - full list of nominees". Press Gazette.
  12. "BSME 2013 nominations announced". Digital Spy.
  13. "Tech's Message Podcast". UKTechShow.com. Retrieved 21 June 2019.
  14. "Webby Award". webbawards.com. Archived from the original on 2017-05-11. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
  15. Sarah, Marshall. "How Wired.co.uk grew a podcast audience of 20K". Journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 17 April 2018.
  16. "Podcast homepage". iTunes. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  17. "Wired.co.uk Podcast". Wired. Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  18. "Twitter". Retrieved 20 September 2014.
  19. "Andrew Hoyle's profile". CBS.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.