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About · The magazine
DISRUPTIVE is a premium cross-industry longform magazine.
Technology. Innovation. Business. Founders. Science. Design. We explain how innovation transforms the world, who is driving it, and which developments have genuine technical, commercial, and social significance. The remit is global: disruptive technology across the world — every continent, not Silicon Valley-centric.
The world does not lack innovation coverage. It lacks a magazine that treats innovation as an industrial fact — reported on the ground, verified against records, and written to hold up years from now — and that reports it from where it happens, across every continent.
DISRUPTIVE is that magazine: cross-industry, longform-first, independent, and global by remit. Digital issues are curated editorial collections, not a commitment to fixed publication dates. Issue Nº 1 is published, and the library keeps growing.
What we publish: longform features, founder profiles, company intelligence, research explainers, interviews, and special reports. Two tempos — longform that lasts, and a fast desk for what is moving now. Everything labeled; nothing faked.
01 · The issue model
Curated collections, not calendar filler.
Digital issues of DISRUPTIVE are curated editorial collections. There is no fixed publication date to fill and no quota of stories to meet. An issue is published when its features are ready — not to fill a date.
02 · The standard
Held to written rules, corrected fast.
Every DISRUPTIVE story is held to written standards of accuracy, verification, and independence. When a story fails the standard, the fix ships fast and the change is logged.
03 · Independence
Independent by charter.
DISRUPTIVE is a Mastheadly publication. Editorial and advertising are strictly separate. Positive coverage is never for sale, and conflicts of interest are disclosed, not hidden.
04 · Global remit
Disruptive technology across the world.
DISRUPTIVE's editorial scope is worldwide: disruptive technology across every continent — Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East — not Silicon Valley-centric. Founder profiles, innovation coverage, and business coverage all carry this remit as stated coverage intent. It is a statement of editorial scope, not of physical presence: we claim no bureaus and no foreign correspondents, anywhere.
05 · Masthead
The people behind the magazine.
Five editors, each with a beat — the journalists who report, write, and edit every story we publish.
- Silas Vane Editor-in-Chief · Innovation & industry Sets the editorial agenda across every desk. Final word on what ships.
- Margot Ellery Senior Editor · Founders & venture capital Leads founder profiles and investment coverage; runs the Business desks.
- Jude Callahan Correspondent · Technology & engineering Covers the Technology desks: AI, robotics, aerospace, manufacturing, mobility.
- Imogen Hart Correspondent · Science & research Covers the Innovation & Science desks: biotech, energy, research.
- Caspian Reed Staff Writer · Design & culture Covers product design, engineering craft, and culture & technology.