Jason Pontin
Summary
Jason Matthew Daniel Pontin (born May 11, 1967) is an editor, journalist and publisher.Pontin was born on May 11, 1967 in London, and raised in Northern California. He was educated in England, at Harrow School and Oxford University.From 1996 to 2002, Pontin was the editor of Red Herring, 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 is the editor in chief and publisher of Technology Review, an independent publication owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that describes emerging technologies.
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Elon Musk: "My Life is Insane"
At a packed keynote panel that left many SXSW attendees watching from overflow rooms, SpaceX, Tesla, and PayPal founder Elon Musk gave convention-goers a glimpse of his "insane" life.
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Why the Washington Post is smart to try sponsored content, and why others should too
Like virtually every other traditional media outlet, the Washington Post has been squeezed hard by the decline in print advertising revenue and the inability of digital ad revenue to fill that gap. Unlike almost every other outlet, however, the Post has resisted putting up a paywall (for now at least) and instead has been experimenting with other methods of monetization.
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How Google did the right thing with the NASCAR crash video, and why it matters
At a NASCAR event on Saturday, debris created by a serious crash flew into the stands and injured a number of fans. As with many such events, a bystander caught the disaster on video and quickly uploaded it to YouTube, but within a matter minutes it was removed due to a copyright claim by NASCAR.
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Discover new revenue models for media at paidContent Live 2013
Our conference is called paidContent Live, but the “paid” and “content” parts of that phrase have been undergoing fundamental disruption. The maturation of digital media, new content-creation and distribution platforms, and new media players of all kinds are changing the way media is consumed, created, distributed and, most importantly, the way it is paid for.
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Discover new revenue models for media at paidContent Live 2013
Our conference is called paidContent Live, but the “paid” and “content” parts of that phrase have been undergoing fundamental disruption. The maturation of digital media, new content-creation and distribution platforms, and new media players of all kinds are changing the way media is consumed, created, distributed and, most importantly, paid for.
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How publishers are getting over the app debate: 3 examples
Apps are a touchy topic for publishers. Once hailed as a savior for the troubled news and magazine industry, apps have since been denounced as an over-priced folly. Today, though, a new economy of app-making is producing a more nuanced view of where apps belong in the eco-system of publishing.
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Look beyond news for mobile innovation
The list of breakthrough interfaces for reading news on smartphones is a short one. Instapaper is arguably the pioneer in this area, with its focus on a simple reading experience. Vox Media’s SB Nation iPhone app cleverly grouped news updates about the same topic (Vox tweaked that design in its current web app approach.
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MIT Technology Review Relaunches 'Digital-First'
Some 20 weeks before Newsweek set the media into a frenzy with its announcement of a digital-first publishing strategy, Jason Pontin was already grappling with how to move his 113-year-old publication toward a digital future. Pontin announced in June that MIT's Technology Review magazine would rebrand and eschew its print focus in favor of the Web and mobile platforms—a move that many in legacy media fear will soon become common practice.
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Upcoming Publishing Business Panel Discussion Asks: Are Apps the Past?
When Technology Review 's Jason Pontin called publishers' love of apps a "delusion," he joined other skeptics wondering if the time and expense of app development is really worth it, especially if the future lies with HTML5, responsive. . .
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Technology Review's Jason Pontin: Apps are Waste of Resources
Journalism’s business model is broken. This we know. What we don’t know, however, are ways of repairing it. MIT’s Technology Review is taking some stabs. First, it’s following in the footsteps of the Financial Times and. . .
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