Undark Magazine

Undark Magazine
Undark logo
Type of site
digital magazine
Available inEnglish
Founder(s)Deborah Blum and Tom Zeller Jr.
IndustryMedia
URLundark.org
CommercialNo
LaunchedMarch 2016 (2016-03)

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 to a radium-based luminous paint product called Undark that ultimately proved toxic, if not deadly for those who handled it.[1][2][3]

The publication's tag line is "Truth, Beauty, Science."[1][4]

The magazine is published under the auspices of the Knight Science Journalism Fellowships program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[5]

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.[6][7] Many large national and international publications, including Scientific American,[8] The Atlantic,[9] Smithsonian,[10] NPR,[11] and Outside [12] 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.[4][3][13]

Awards

Undark has earned numerous awards for its journalism, including being named a finalist for a 2022 National Magazine Award in the Reporting category.[14]

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".[15][16] The series also won the 2019 Al Neuharth Innovation in Investigative Journalism Award from the Online News Association.[17]

The magazine's work has been anthologized in The Best American Science & Nature Writing book series.[18]

In 2017, Undark was a finalist for an Online Journalism Award in the Feature category for its series "Wear & Tear",[19] which explored the global impacts of the leather tanning and textile industries.[20] In 2018, three Undark contributors were named as finalists in the National Association of Science Writers' Science and Society Awards.[21]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About Undark". Undark Magazine.
  2. ↑ Blum, Deborah. "Life in the Undark". Wired. Retrieved May 2, 2018.
  3. 1 2 Dattaro, Laura (October 27, 2015). "Can Undark go where no other online science mag has gone before?". Columbia Journalism Review.
  4. 1 2 Bilton, Ricardo (October 20, 2016). "Connecting science with society, Undark hopes to help elevate the standards for science journalism". Nieman Lab.
  5. ↑ Horgan, Richard (May 3, 2016). "A New Twist for MIT's Knight Science Journalism Program". Adweek. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
  6. ↑ "Submissions". Undark Magazine. Knight Science Journalism Fellowships.
  7. ↑ "Republishing Guidelines". Undark Magazine. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  8. ↑ "Stories by Undark Magazine". Scientific American. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  9. ↑ "Articles republished from Undark Magazine". The Atlantic. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  10. ↑ Lenzer, Jeanne (January 2, 2018). "When a Medical 'Cure' Makes Things Much, Much Worse". Undark Magazine. Retrieved August 15, 2026 – via Smithsonian.
  11. ↑ Szalavitz, Maia (June 11, 2017). "Why We Should Say Someone Is A 'Person With An Addiction,' Not An Addict". NPR. Retrieved August 15, 2026.
  12. ↑ "The Allure and Perils of Hydropower". Outside Magazine. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Recent and archived work by Tom Zeller Jr. for The New York Times". New York Times. Retrieved February 25, 2018.
  14. ↑ "All the Stories Nominated for the 2022 National Magazine Awards". Longreads. February 25, 2022. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
  15. ↑ Undark Magazine "Breathtaking"
  16. ↑ "Winners". Long Island University. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  17. ↑ "Breathtaking". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved January 16, 2019.
  18. ↑ "The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2019". HMH Books. Retrieved May 16, 2020.
  19. ↑ Undark Magazine "Wear & Tear"
  20. ↑ "Wear and Tear". Online Journalism Awards. Retrieved February 21, 2019.
  21. ↑ "2018 Science in Society Journalism Award winners". National Association of Science Writers. Retrieved February 21, 2019.

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