Update: The following is attributable to James Bennet, editorial page editor of The New York Times: “Despite our review of Quinn Norton’s work and our conversations with her previous employers, this was new information to us. Based on it, we’ve decided to go our separate ways.”

We’re delighted to announce that Quinn Norton has joined The New York Times editorial board as our lead opinion writer on the power, culture and consequences of technology.

Quinn is probably best known for her work at Wired, where she reported on Anonymous, the Occupy movement, and hacker culture and wrote regularly for the digital security blog Threat Level. She was also a columnist at Maximum PC magazine for five years, and she’s written regularly for Medium and contributed to The Atlantic, ProPublica and Gizmodo.

We find ourselves at a moment of profound uncertainty about the role of technology in our lives, the influence of the tech companies and the correct direction of public policy to address all this change. We’re effectively asking technologists and policymakers to do so much — to secure our elections, to reinvent our business models, to educate and entertain and safeguard ourselves and our children, to protect us from extremists around the world. We expect all of this, across 200-plus nations and uncountable cultures, while also aspiring to privacy, transparency and prosperity. We’re excited to have Quinn to help our readers understand what’s possible and what’s sensible, and where we’re all headed.

She plans to split her time between Luxembourg and San Francisco, with periodic visits to New York.

– James Bennet, Katie Kingsbury and Jim Dao