Awards
Recent awards for MIT Technology Review
AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards
- 2022 Gold in Magazine: “How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities” by Kendra Pierre-Louis
- 2022 Silver in Science Reporting—In Depth: “Meet the scientist at the center of the covid lab leak controversy” by Jane Qiu
American Association for Cancer Research
- 2019 June L. Biedler Prize for Cancer Journalism: “We can now customize cancer treatments, tumor by tumor” by Adam Piore
American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME)
- 2026 Finalist, Reporting: “We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven't heard” by James O’Donnell and Casey Crownhart
- 2025 Winner, Best Independent Magazine Cover: “The robots are coming”
- 2024 ASME NEXT Award for Journalists Under 30: Zeyi Yang
- 2022 Finalist, Best Business and Technology Cover: “The Food Issue”
- 2022 ASME NEXT Award for Journalists Under 30: Karen Hao
- 2020 Finalist, Single-Topic Issue: “The China Issue”
Association of British Science Writers
- 2025 Finalist, News Analysis of the Year: “Exosomes are touted as a trendy cure-all. We don’t know if they work” by Jessica Hamzelou
- 2024 Winner, News Item of the Year: “Three-parent baby technique could create babies at risk of severe disease” by Jessica Hamzelou
- 2023 Winner, Feature of the Year (General Audience): “Technology that lets us ‘speak’ to our dead relatives has arrived. Are we ready?” by Charlotte Jee
- 2023 Winner, News Analysis or Explanatory Reporting: “A battle is raging over long covid in children” by Jessica Hamzelou
Best American Science & Nature Writing
- 2025 Other Notable Science Writing: “What we leave behind” by Niall Firth; “What is AI?” by Will Douglas Heaven; “Europa ho!” by Stephen Ornes
- 2024 Other Notable Science Writing: “Machines like us” by Grace Huckins
- 2023 Other Notable Science Writing: “What happens when you donate your body to science” by A.W. Ohlheiser; “Why didn’t the toad cross the road?” by Matthew Ponsford; “A divided defense” by Sandeep Ravindran
- 2022 Selection: “How rising groundwater caused by climate change could devastate coastal communities” by Kendra Pierre-Louis
- 2022 Selection: “How we drained California dry” by Mark Arax
- 2022 Selection: “The climate solution actually adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere” by Lisa Song and James Temple
Front Page Awards
- 2020 Winner, Investigative Reporting (Audio): “In Machines We Trust: An investigation into the rise of facial recognition technology in policing” by Jennifer Strong and Emma Cillekens.
Hastings Center for Bioethics Awards
- 2018 Winner, Excellence in Journalism on Ethics and Reprogenetics: “A new way to reproduce” by Antonio Regalado
Livingston Awards
- 2025 Finalist, Excellence in International Reporting: “Meet the radio-obsessed civilian shaping Ukraine’s drone defense” by Charlie Metcalfe
Medical Journalists’ Association Awards
- 2025 Finalist, Feature of the Year (Specialist Audience): “A strange kind of limbo” by Jessica Hamzelou
- 2025 Finalist, Case Study of the Year: “Motor neuron diseases took their voices. AI is bringing them back” by Jessica Hamzelou
- 2023 Finalist, Feature of the Year (Specialist Audience): “Inside the race to make human sex cells in the lab” by Jessica Hamzelou
National Association of Science Writers
- 2025 Science in Society Journalism Award, Longform Narratives: “This grim but revolutionary DNA technology is changing how we respond to mass disasters” by Erica Hayasaki
National Institute of Health Care Management (NIHCM)
- 2025 Finalist, Trade Journalism Award: “The quest to legitimize longevity medicine” by Jessica Hamzelou
- 2024 Finalist, Trade Journalism Award: “The impacts of experimental treatments” (part 1, 2, 3, 4) by Jessica Hamzelou
- 2023 Finalist, Trade Journalism Award: “What to expect when you’re expecting an extra X or Y chromosome” by Bonnie Rochman
- 2023 Finalist, Trade Journalism Award: “A battle is raging over long covid in children” by Jessica Hamzelou
- 2021 Winner, Trade Journalism Award: “The antibody drugs made against covid-19” (part 1, 2, 3) by Antonio Regalado
- 2020 Finalist, Trade Journalism Award: “Don’t count on having kids if you freeze your eggs” by Bonnie Rochman
Online Journalism Awards
- 2025 Finalist, Excellence in Newsletters, Portfolio
- 2023 Finalist, Excellence in Newsletters, Portfolio
Publisher Newsletter Awards
- 2025 Winner, Best Technology Newsletter: The Download
- 2025 Shortlist, Best Science Newsletter: The Checkup
- 2025 Shortlist, Best Limited Run Newsletter: Intro to AI
- 2024 Shortlist, Best Science & Technology Newsletter: China Report
- 2024 Shortlist, Best Science & Technology Newsletter: The Algorithm
- 2024 Shortlist, Best News & Analysis Newsletter: Weekend Reads
SEAL Environmental Journalism Awards
- 2020 Winner, James Temple
The Society of Publication Designers
- 2025 Finalist, Original Digital Illustration/Photo Illustration: “The New Conspiracy Age”
- 2025 Merit Award, Original Digital Photography: Feature/Documentary: “On the ground in Ukraine’s largest Starlink repair shop”
- 2022 Gold Medal, Design: Single/Spread: “Coin of the realm”
- 2021 Silver Medal, Design: Single/Spread: “Messenger RNA vaccines”
- 2019 Silver Medal, Photography: Story: “Pipe dreams”