Jason Pontin

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Jason Pontin (born May 11, 1967) is an editor, journalist and publisher.

Pontin is the editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review, an independent publication owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that describes emerging technologies and analyses their impact. He was hired as the editor of Technology Review in July 2004, and in August of 2005 was also named publisher. As publisher, he is responsible for all the media and business of Technology Review, including its print magazine, Web site, videos, e-newsletters, and events. Pontin is enagaged in what the Boston Globe has described as a "strategic overhaul" of Technology Review, whose goal is to make the venerable magazine (est. 1899) into an interactive, largely electronic publishing company^[1]. In 2007, Technology Review won third place in the MPA Digital Awards for best business or news Website (after Time Magazine and BusinessWeek), and second place for best online video or video series (after Concierge.com)^[2]. In 2006, Technology Review was a finalist in the National Magazine Awards in the category of General Excellence^[3].

From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of Red Herring (magazine), a business and technology publication that was popular during the dot-com boom. From 2002 to 2004, he was the editor of The Acumen Journal, a now-defunct magazine about the life sciences that he founded.

Pontin writes a regular column, "Slipstream", about new ideas in technology for The New York Times on Sunday. He has written for many other national and international magazines and newspapers, including The Economist, The Financial Times, Wired, The Believer Magazine, Readymade Magazine, and InfoWorld. He is a frequent guest on broadcast, public, and cable television news.

Pontin was born in London, raised in Northern California, and educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University.

[edit] References

1. ^ Boston Globe, August 30, 2005, p. C1, "MIT tech journal getting new publisher, overhaul."
2. ^ MPA Digital Awards 2007[1]
3. ^ National Magazine Award Finalists 2006[2]

[edit] See also

• Technology Review
• MIT
• Red Herring (magazine)
• The Acumen Journal
• De Grey Technology Review controversy

[edit] External links

• Technology Review.
• Moira Gunn interviews Pontin about Technology Review on NPR's Tech Nation.
• Pontin's profile of Dawit Giorgis, an exiled Ethiopian politician, published in The Believer.