Undark Magazine is a nonprofit online publication exploring science as a "frequently wondrous, sometimes contentious, and occasionally troubling byproduct of human culture."[1] The name Undark is a deliberate reference[2] to a radium-based luminous paint product called Undark that ultimately proved toxic, if not deadly for those who handled it.[3][4]
 Undark logo | |
Type of site | data magazine |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Founder(s) | Deborah Blum and Tom Zeller Jr. |
| Industry | Media |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | No |
| Launched | March 2016 |
The publication's tag line is "Truth, Beauty, Science."[5][6]
The magazine is published under the auspices of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[7]
Undark publishes a mix of long-form journalism, shorter features, essays, op-eds, questions and answers, and book excerpts and reviews. All content is freely available to read, and most is available for republishing by other publications and websites.[8][9] Many large national and international publications, including Scientific American,[10] The Atlantic,[11] Smithsonian,[12] NPR,[13] and Outside [14] have republishing relationships with Undark.
Undark was jointly founded in 2016 by Pulitzer Prize-winning science author Deborah Blum and former New York Times journalist Tom Zeller Jr., who serves as editor-in-chief of the magazine.[6][4][15]
Awards
editUndark has earned numerous awards for its journalism, including being named a finalist for a 2022 National Magazine Award in the Reporting category.[16]
On February 19, 2019, Undark was awarded a George Polk Award for Environmental Reporting. The award honored photojournalist Larry C. Price and contributing reporters for the magazine's multinational, multipart exposé on global air pollution, called "Breathtaking".[17][18] The series also won the 2019 Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award from the Online News Association.[19]
The magazine's work has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing book series.[20]
In 2017, Undark was a finalist for an Online Journalism Award in the Feature category for its series "Wear & Tear",[21] which explored the global impacts of the leather tanning and textile industries.[22] In 2018, three Undark contributors were named as finalists in the National Association of Science Writers' Science and Society Awards.[23]
References
edit- ^ "About Undark Magazine". Undark Magazine. Knight Science Journalism Fellowships.
- ^ "About Us - Undark". Undark. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ Blum, Deborah. "Life in the Undark". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ a b Dattaro, Laura (October 27, 2015). "Can Undark go where no other online science mag has gone before?". Columbia Journalism Review.
- ^ "About Us". Undark Magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
- ^ a b Bilton, Ricardo (October 20, 2016). "Connecting science with society, Undark hopes to help elevate the standards for science journalism". Nieman Lab.
- ^ Horgan, Richard (May 3, 2016). "A New Twist for MIT's Knight Science Journalism Program". Adweek. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
- ^ "Submissions". Undark Magazine. Knight Science Journalism Fellowships.
- ^ "Republishing Guidelines". Undark Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Stories by Undark Magazine". Scientific American. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Articles republished from Undark Magazine". The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "When a Medical "Cure" Makes Things Much, Much Worse". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Why We Should Say Someone Is A 'Person With An Addiction,' Not An Addict". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
- ^ "The Allure and Perils of Hydropower". Outside Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
- ^ "Recent and archived work by Tom Zeller Jr. for The New York Times". New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
- ^ "All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards". Longreads. 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
- ^ Undark Magazine "Breathtaking"
- ^ "Winners | LIU". Long Island University. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ "Breathtaking". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019". HMH Books. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
- ^ Undark Magazine "Wear & Tear"
- ^ "Wear and Tear". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
- ^ "2018 Science in Society Journalism Award winners". National Association of Science Writers. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
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