Tuesday, September 23rd 2025
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. For their upcoming print issue, they’re looking for pitches on the theme of Crime. They’re seeking longer pieces: “narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” While this pitch call is aimed at journalists, experts with strong ideas are also encouraged to reach out. Pay is $1 to $2 a word. For details, refer to their editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Deadline: September 26th, 2025
Sunday, September 14th 2025
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. For their upcoming print issue, they’re looking for pitches on the theme of Crime. They’re seeking longer pieces: “narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” While this pitch call is aimed at journalists, experts with strong ideas are also encouraged to reach out. Rate is $1 to $2 a word. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and this page.
Deadline: September 26th, 2025
Tuesday, August 5th 2025
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. For their print magazine, they’re seeking feature pitches on the theme of Breakthroughs. According to their pitch guide, the feature well of their magazine is devoted to “narrative features, investigations, big profiles, and reported essays (generally between 2500-4000 words).” Rate is $1 to $2 a word. For details, refer to their editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Deadline: August 11th, 2025
Friday, July 18th 2025
For their print issue in January/February 2026, the theme is Breakthroughs. They run short news stories and profiles (500-800 words), op-eds, and data spreads in the front of the book and essaysand book reviews in the back of the book (usually around 2,000 words) for the print issue. They also publish narrative features, investigations, big profiles, and reported essays (generally between 2,500-4,000 words); the features are around the issue theme. “Rates range from $1 to $2 per word, depending on the experience level of the writer, the story, and the publication route. Deeply reported features pay more than shorter news pieces” and according to their general guide, the rough pitch deadline for the Breakthroughs theme is mid-late July/early August 2025. Their general pitch guide is here; scroll to the end for themes.
Friday, May 16th 2025
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming print issue. The theme of the issue is The Body. They’re seeking pitches for longer pieces: “narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” Pay is $1 to $2 a word. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Deadline: May 30th, 2025
Thursday, March 27th 2025
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming print issue. The theme of the issue is Security. They’re seeking pitches for longer pieces: “narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” Rates are $1 to $2 a word. If interested, direct your pitches to rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and this page.
Deadline: April 4th, 2025
Tuesday, February 4th 2025
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. Their editor is looking for pitches for their upcoming print issue, themed "Power." They want long pieces and big swings. Rate is $1 to $2 a word. To read their editor’s post, click here. To learn how to pitch them, click here.
Deadline: February 14th, 2025
Sunday, November 24th 2024
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re seeking pitches for their upcoming print issue. The theme of the issue is Creativity (please note that the theme is a loose prompt). They’re seeking longer pieces: narrative features, investigations, profiles, and essays. This pitch call is mostly aimed at journalists. Rates are $1-$2 per word. To learn more, refer to their commissioning editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Deadline: December 4th, 2024
Sunday, September 22nd 2024
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming print issue. The theme of the issue is Relationships. Please note that the theme is a loose prompt. They’re seeking longer pieces: narrative features, investigations, profiles, and essays. They pay $1 to $2 a word. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Deadline: September 27th, 2024
Tuesday, July 9th 2024
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for the upcoming issue of their magazine. The theme is Breakthroughs. They’re seeking longer pieces: narrative features, investigations, profiles, and essays. They pay $1 to $2 per word. To learn more, refer to their commissioning editor’s post on X and post on LinkedIn.
Deadline: July 23rd, 2024
Saturday, May 11th 2024
MIT Technology Review is a media
company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming print issue.
The theme of the issue is Hard Problems—Food. They’re seeking longer pieces:
narrative features, investigations, profiles, and essays. Pay is $1 to $2 a
word. Details here
and here.
Deadline: May 20th, 2024
Sunday, January 7th 2024
MIT Technology Review is a media
company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming print
magazine issue. The theme of the issue is Play. They want longer pieces: “narrative
features, investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” This
pitch call is mostly aimed at journalists. Pay is $1 to $2 per word. To learn
more, refer to their commissioning editor’s post and their
pitch
guide.
Deadline: January 15th, 2024
Friday, September 8th 2023
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming issue on “exploration and hidden worlds.” They’re seeking big swings from writers: “narrative features, essential profiles, and sharp reported essays.” Pay is $1 to $2 per word. To learn more, refer to their commissioning editor’s post and their pitch guide.
Deadline: September 18th, 2023
Saturday, July 29th 2023
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re seeking pitches for their upcoming issue on breakthroughs. They’re “looking for big swings from journalists: narrative features, essential profiles, and sharp reported essays about recent/unfolding breakthroughs.” Pay is $1 to $2 per word. For details, refer to their commissioning editor’s tweet and their pitch guide.
Deadline: August 7th, 2023
Saturday, May 20th 2023
MIT Technology Review is a media
company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. They’re seeking pitches for their upcoming issue on hard
problems. They’re “looking for *big* swings: narrative features, essential
profiles, and sharp essays — especially on topics that have nothing to do with
AI.” They will pay $1 to $2 per word. For more information, refer to their
editor’s Twitter
thread and their pitch
guide.
Deadline: May 30th, 2023
Tuesday, April 25th 2023
MIT Technology Review is a media
company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. They’re offering editorial fellowship in their newsroom. They’re
looking for people who are self-starters and keen to learn. Fellows can work
remotely or from their office in Cambridge, MA. Pay is $20 per hour. To learn
more, refer to their executive editor’s tweet and
this page.
Deadline: May 15th, 2023
Tuesday, April 11th 2023
MIT Technology Review is a media
company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. They’re seeking pitches for their upcoming issue on
ethics. They're “looking for *big* swings: narrative features,
investigations, essential profiles, and sharp essays at the intersection of
ethics+technology.” Rates are $1 to $2 per word. To learn more, read their
editor’s Twitter
thread and their pitch
guide.
Deadline: April 20th, 2023
Tuesday, January 24th 2023
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re seeking pitches for their upcoming issue on accessibility. They’re “looking for *big* swings: narrative features, investigations, essential profiles, and sharp essays at the intersection of accessibility+technology.” Pay is $1 to $2 per word. Pitches should be sent to rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com. For details, refer to their editor’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.
Deadline: February 3rd, 2023
Wednesday, January 4th 2023
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They are always seeking sharp story pitches: news (generally 800 to 1,000 words); features (2,500 to 4,000 words); profiles; essays; op-eds; and more. Rates are $1 to $2 per word for reported pieces. To learn more, read their editor’s tweet and their pitch guide.
Tuesday, December 6th 2022
MIT Technology Review is a
media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. They are looking for pitches for their upcoming issue on Education.
According to their pitch
guide, they pay $1 to $2 per word. To learn more, refer to this tweet by
their editorial director of print.
Thursday, September 22nd 2022
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They are looking for pitches for their issue on art and design. They welcome news, features, profiles, essays, etc. Pay is $1 to $2 per word. Send your pitches to rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com. For more information, read their editor’s Twitter thread and their general guide.
Deadline: October 5th, 2022
Friday, September 9th 2022
MIT Technology Review is a
media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. They are looking for pitches, especially features on design,
accessibility, and education as they relate to/connect with technology. They
pay $1 to $2 per word. For more information, read this Tweet and
their pitch
guidelines.
Friday, September 2nd 2022
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. Their editor is building up their network of physical science writers. If you write about “physics, space, materials science, computing, defense tech, etc.”, then get in touch with their editor at rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com. Rates range from $1 to $2 a word. Read their editor’s Twitter thread here and their pitch guide here.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. Their features and investigations editor is looking for new writers. They have tweeted, “I love a whole range of stories—holding bad actors accountable, uncovering something new/fascinating/weird, crafting a compelling narrative you can't put down—but mostly I want stories that you feel like you immediately have to tell your friends about.” Rates range from $1.00-$2.00 a word. Send your ideas to amanda.silverman@technologyreview.com. To read their features and investigations editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To read their pitch guide, click here.
Tuesday, August 2nd 2022
MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. Their editorial director of print is seeking front of book pitches. They want short pieces (400 to 600 words), profiles, and infographic/explainers. They pay $1 to $2 per word. Read their editorial director’s Tweet here. Learn more about them here.
Sunday, May 22nd 2022
MIT
Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political,
and social impact of the newest technologies. They are seeking pitches for
their upcoming issue on mortality. They welcome “news, features, profiles,
essays, and op-eds.” Rate is $1 to $2 per word. If interested, email your
pitches to rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com.
To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and
their ‘about’ page.
Deadline: June 3rd, 2022
Tuesday, April 12th 2022
MIT
Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political,
and social impact of the newest technologies. They are looking for pitches for
their upcoming issue on Gender. They welcome news, features, profiles, etc. Pay
is $1 to $2 per word. Read their editor’s Tweet here. Learn
more about them here.
Deadline: April 22nd, 2022
Wednesday, February 23rd 2022
MIT
Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political,
and social impact of the newest technologies. They are looking for CITY
pitches: “How is tech transforming the built environment for better/worse? What
does a walkable city become when dinner, entertainment, and shopping is
delivered to your front door? Why do people keep trying to build cities from scratch?
etc.” They pay
$1 to $2 per word. If interested, email your pitches to allison.arieff@technologyreview.com.
To learn more, refer to this Tweet and
their ‘about’ page.
Sunday, January 2nd 2022
MIT
Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political,
and social impact of the newest technologies. Their newly appointed
commissioning editor is looking to hear from freelance science and technology
journalists. They pay $1 to
$2 per word. If interested, email rachel.courtland@technologyreview.com.
Read their commissioning editor’s Tweet here and learn
more about them here.
Tuesday, December 14th 2021
MIT
Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political,
and social impact of the newest technologies. They are seeking "pitches about
the rapidly changing world of money and finance." Rates start at $1 per word.
Send your pitches to amy.nordrum@technologyreview.com.
To learn more, refer to this Tweet and their
‘about’ page.
Deadline: December 17th, 2021
Tuesday, November 9th 2021
MIT
Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political,
and social impact of the newest technologies. They are currently seeking
pitches for online. They are open to everything (news pieces, features,
analysis, scoops, etc.), any topic. They pay $1 to $2 per word. Send your pitches to niall.firth@technologyreview.com.
To learn more, refer to their editorial director’s Tweet and
their 'about' page.
Sunday, September 12th 2021
MIT
Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political,
and social impact of the newest technologies. Their commissioning editor is looking
for writers who want to write about water. She is “assigning stories (features,
data viz, Q&As, essays, profiles) on this important topic and would love to
hear your ideas.” Rates start at $1 per word. Send your pitches to amy.nordrum@technologyreview.com.
Read their commissioning editor’s Tweet here and
learn more about them here.
Deadline: September 16th, 2021
Sunday, June 6th 2021
MIT Technology Review is a media
company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the
newest technologies. Their commissioning editor is “assigning stories about
computing in its many forms: supercomputers, quantum computers, the cloud,
chips, AI, and oh so much more.” Their rates start at $1 per word. If
interested, contact amy.nordrum@technologyreview.com.
Read their editor’s Tweet here and
learn more about them here.
Sunday, May 16th 2021
The news editor of
the premier tech magazine, MIT Technology Review, issued a call for poetry on
Twitter. They want to publish some poetry for their next issue on the theme of
mind/brain. Send up to two poems. They pay. See the Twitter thread here.
Deadline: 31 May 2021
Friday, March 12th 2021
MIT
Technology Review is a premier media company that publishes work about
technology and its impact. They recently announced a couple of calls for
pitches on Twitter. (Usually they do not take unsolicited pitches). Pay starts
at $1/word for both these themes.
-- The Mind: Their news editor has said recently on Twitter, “I'm looking for pitches on the topic of "the mind" for an
upcoming print issue. Could be latest breakthroughs in neuroscience, the
collision (good and bad) of technology and mental health, people-based stories,
anything.” Details here (Tweet).
-- Technology + Change: The commissioning editor of MIT Technology Review
said on Twitter: “I’m looking for pitches about technology + change. Could be a
reported story about a tech activist, analysis of technology’s role in a political
movement, or a deep dive into a major technical shift or disruption.” Details here
(Tweet).
Wednesday, March 10th 2021
MIT Technology Review is a media company
that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest
technologies. Their commissioning editor is seeking pitches about technology +
change. It could be “a reported story about a tech activist, analysis of
technology’s role in a political movement, or a deep dive into a major
technical shift or disruption.” Their rates start at $1 per word. Pitches
should be sent to amy.nordrum@technologyreview.com.
Read their commissioning editor’s Tweet here and
learn more about them here.
Sunday, February 7th 2021
MIT Technology Review is a media company
that is “making technology a greater force for good.” Their commissioning
editor is looking for pitches about the future of cities- “where are we headed,
and what role will technology play?” Rates start at $1 per word. Email your
pitches to amy.nordrum@technologyreview.com
or DM their editor on Twitter. Read their editor’s Tweet here and learn
more about them here.