Jason Pontin has joined Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation, as editor-in-chief. The announcement was made June 21 by R. Bruce Journey, president and CEO of Technology Review, Inc., and publisher of the magazine.
Pontin, 37, spent seven years at the helm of Red Herring, where he directed all print and online editorial, growing the magazine into an international business with more than 350,000 readers. He has written for many national and international publications including The Financial Times, The Economist, Wired and The Believer, and he has been a frequent guest on CNN, CNNMoney, ABC News, MSNBC, CNBC and NPR.
Most recently Pontin served as editor-in-chief of The Acumen Journal, a monthly publication covering the business, economic and political implications of discoveries in the life sciences. Pontin succeeds Robert Buderi, who returned to the editor-at-large position earlier this spring.
At Technology Review, Pontin will oversee all editorial aspects of the company's ongoing growth strategy, which includes:
- An aggressive international expansion effort that currently includes foreign-language editions available in China, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands
- International distribution of Technology Review's award-winning content through publishing partners in Hungary, Russia, and South Africa
- A web business, www.technologyreview.com, which has grown 75 percent in traffic over the past 12 months
- Expansion through specialty newsletters such as MIT Technology Insider and Semiconductor Innovation Letter (jointly published with Dow Jones VentureWire)
- Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, an annual event that brings together world-renowned innovators, investors and key senior managers and leaders in technology and business to discuss how they are profiting from emerging technologies and innovations.
"Business leaders worldwide repeatedly rely on Technology Review to provide early, forward-thinking details and insights on innovations that will impact their businesses, the public markets and our lives. With economic growth and innovation rapidly expanding worldwide, it's imperative that we continue to meet our readers' expectations," Journey said. "As one of the best -known editorial leaders in business and technology publishing, Jason Pontin is a natural fit for Technology Review. We're excited to have him lead our editorial team and look forward to continued success in the year ahead."
"I am honored to be the new editor of the oldest, most prestigious and most insightful technology magazine in the world," said Pontin. "Technology Review has an enviable record: year after year, it has been the first to explain why new technologies matter to an international readership of innovative leaders. I'm excited to join that tradition and to work with Technology Review's editors, writers and designers to evolve the publication further."
Technology Review, Inc., an MIT enterprise, delivers essential information about emerging technologies and their impact on leaders. Since 1998, paid U.S. circulation for the company's magazine, Technology Review, has more than tripled, climbing from 92,000 to 315,000. With its recently launched foreign editions, the exposure of Technology Review magazine, combined with the company's events, newsletters and online businesses, reaches mmore than two million business leaders worldwide each month.
