Jason Pontin

Jason Pontin is the Editor in Chief and Publisher of Technology Review, an independent publication owned by MIT that describes emerging technologies and analyses their impact. He was hired as editor of Technology Review in July 2004, and in August of 2005 was additionally named publisher. As publisher, he is responsible for all the media and business operations 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, with the goal of making the 107-year-old magazine into an interactive, largely electronic publishing company. In 2006, Technology Review was named as a finalist in the National Magazine Awards in the category of General Excellence.

From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the Editor of Red Herring magazine, sometimes called the bible of "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 has written for The Economist, The Financial Times, Wired, The Believer, Readymade, and InfoWorld. He is a frequent guest on broadcast, cable, and public television news.

In a series of articles in Technology Review, Pontin was critical of the work of Aubrey de Grey, a theoretical biogerontologist at the University of Cambridge. See De Grey Technology Review controversy.