Noah Shachtman, the editor of Rolling Stone, appears in an undated image.

Condé Nast’s technology publication Wired has hired Rolling Stone’s former editor-in-chief who helped conceal serious criminal charges against a colleague two years ago.

On Tuesday, Wired’s Global Editor Katie Drumm said the publication is bringing back Noah Shachtman as a contributing editor, reprising the role he held from 2006 to 2013.

Drumm said Shachtman’s time at Rolling Stone saw him “[lean] hard into scoops and investigations across the entertainment industry, politics, technology and beyond.”

Shachtman earned headlines of his own last year after NPR revealed he interfered with an article that would have revealed serious child sex abuse allegations against his friend, former ABC News producer James Gordon Meek.

Rolling Stone was the first to report a federal law enforcement raid on Meek’s home in April 2022. Government sources told reporter Tatiana Siegel that the raid was...