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# Saying bye to The Wire
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/saying-bye-to-the-wire/
- Published: 2022-11-30T02:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-11-30T02:30:00.000Z
- Description: November 30, 2022, is my last day.
- Author: VM
- Tags: Life notes, science journalism, The Hindu, The Wire, #Migrated-1787484114599, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:22

Today, November 30, is my last day at *The Wire Science* and *The Wire*. I was part of their founding team and the seven years since have made for an exciting and enriching ride.

The two things I'm most grateful for were all the new friends I made in this time and the freedom to imagine a '*The Wire*'s brand of science journalism'. We published a lot of science, health, environment and spaceflight writing of the very highest standard, and it's my privilege to count the bylines of several stellar writers on the pages of *The Wire Science*.

Many of our articles have won awards and, equally importantly, renewed interest in areas of study and work, became books and teaching materials, the starting points for PhD programmes and, perhaps most gratifying of all, prompted people to think about science a bit differently.

Come January 2023, I will be joining *The Hindu* in a role that I'm quite excited by. I'm especially looking forward to focusing on my own work, which I haven't been able to do for a while. Running *The Wire Science* was (and is) an exacting task and at *The Hindu* I'm also looking forward to lightening some of that load.

Thank you all for reading what *The Wire Science* has published – and, I hope, will continue to do so. Going ahead, please also divert a little bit of your reading time to *The Hindu*. :) I'm counting on your constructive criticism, as always.