Mark Robinson

Mark Robinson focuses on longform narratives and investigative features online and in print. In 2016 and 2017 he was the editor in chief of EPIC magazine, a journalism and film and TV production startup that specializes in publishing longform nonfiction. Before that he spent more than a decade at WIRED, where he served as a senior editor, articles editor, features editor, and executive editor. He attended Stanford’s master’s program in journalism. In 2005 Robinson and writer Jeff Howe coined the word “crowdsourcing.” He is devoted to open-water swimming, moonlights as a jazz singer, and is based in San Francisco.