Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization 
Attention Span Media
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Website joshmchugh.contently.com LinkedIn View on LinkedIn X (Twitter) View on X
Josh’s experience at the intersection of technology, media and business began at Forbes Magazine, where he chronicled the brainiacs and billionaires behind the turn-of-the-century tech upheaval, while opening Forbes’ Bay area offices.
Before joining Attention Span in 2008, he was a contributing editor at Wired Magazine and a writer for Vanity
Fair, Outside, and shelfloads of other publications. He has also worked as a copywriter for advertising juggernauts Wieden + Kennedy and Goodby, Silverstein & Partners. A cable series based on his Wired story “Drug Test Cowboys,” about professional pharmaceutical trial participants, was sold to Comedy Central.
Josh graduated from Yale in 1992 with a BA in English. His efforts to dunk a basketball are the subject of Dunkumentary, a documentary currently making the film festival circuit. From 2010 to 2014, Josh served as president of the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco’s INFORUM division.
