Jason Pontin
Jason Pontin is an editor, journalist and publisher.
Currently, 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 additionally made 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. 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 Magazine, Readymade Magazine, and InfoWorld. He is a frequent guest on broadcast, public, and cable television news, and appears every week on CNN.
Pontin was born in London in 1967, raised in Northern California, and educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University.
References
- Boston Globe, August 30, 2005, p. C1, "MIT tech journal getting new publisher, overhaul"