Undark Magazine

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 Magazine
Undark logo
Type of site
data magazine
Available inEnglish
OwnerKnight Dug
Founder(s)Deborah Blum and Tom Zeller Jr.
IndustryMedia
URLwww.undark.org
CommercialNo
LaunchedMarch 2016 (2016-03)

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.[15][16][17]

Awards

Undark has earned numerous awards for its journalism, including being named a finalist for a 2022 National Magazine Award in the Reporting category.[18]

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".[19][20] The series also won the 2019 Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award from the Online News Association.[21]

The magazine's work has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing book series.[22]

In 2017, Undark was a finalist for an Online Journalism Award in the Feature category for its series "Wear & Tear",[23] which explored the global impacts of the leather tanning and textile industries.[24] In 2018, three Undark contributors were named as finalists in the National Association of Science Writers' Science and Society Awards.[25]

References
  1. "About Undark Magazine". Undark Magazine. Knight Science Journalism Fellowships.
  2. "About Us - Undark". Undark. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  3. Blum, Deborah. "Life in the Undark". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  4. "Can Undark go where no other online science mag has gone before?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  5. "About Us". Undark Magazine. Retrieved 2019-11-06.
  6. "Connecting science with society, Undark hopes to help elevate the standards for science journalism". Nieman Lab. Retrieved 2022-10-13.
  7. Horgan, Richard (May 3, 2016). "A New Twist for MIT's Knight Science Journalism Program". Adweek. Retrieved 21 June 2021.
  8. "Submissions". Undark Magazine. Knight Science Journalism Fellowships.
  9. "Republishing Guidelines". Undark Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  10. "Stories by Undark Magazine". Scientific American. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  11. "Articles republished from Undark Magazine". The Atlantic. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  12. "When a Medical "Cure" Makes Things Much, Much Worse". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  13. "Why We Should Say Someone Is A 'Person With An Addiction,' Not An Addict". NPR.org. Retrieved 2018-05-02.
  14. "The Allure and Perils of Hydropower". Outside Magazine. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  15. "Connecting science with society, Undark hopes to help elevate the standards for science journalism". Nieman Labs. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  16. "Can Undark go where no other online science mag has gone before?". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  17. "Recent and archived work by Tom Zeller Jr. for The New York Times". New York Times. Retrieved 25 February 2018.
  18. "All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards". Longreads. 2022-02-25. Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  19. Undark Magazine "Breathtaking"
  20. "Winners | LIU". Long Island University. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  21. "Breathtaking". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  22. "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019". HMH Books. Retrieved 16 May 2020.
  23. Undark Magazine "Wear & Tear"
  24. "Wear and Tear". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
  25. "2018 Science in Society Journalism Award winners". National Association of Science Writers. Retrieved 21 February 2019.
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