Wired editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson announced the hiring of former EW writer Nancy Miller as a senior editor today. The memo follows.

Nancy Miller has been named a senior editor at Wired, it was announced today by Chris Anderson, Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. Her appointment is effective immediately. Ms. Miller will oversee most of the magazine's entertainment coverage. Before joining Wired, Ms. Miller was a freelance music and film journalist and on-air correspondent for NPR's "The Business," recorded at KCRW in Santa Monica. She was a staff writer at Entertainment Weekly for five years and a music commentator for KCRW's broadband channel, KCRWmusic.com. Ms. Miller was also a contributing editor at Details and Marie Claire, and a senior associate editor at Maxim. Her work has appeared in SPIN, Details, Harper's Bazaar, and other magazines. Ms. Miller holds a BA in English from the University of San Francisco. She lives in Los Angeles.