Jennifer Strong is a journalist covering the impact of frontier technologies on the way we live and work. She’s the creator of several top science and tech podcasts for newsrooms that include ProPublica, The Wall Street Journal, and MIT Technology Review. Her latest show, SHIFT, launched in 2023 and is distributed by public radio's PRX.

Her reporting has been recognized by awards juries dozens of times, including six Webby and three Ambie (Podcast Academy Award) nominations. Her narrative podcasts were finalist selections at the New York Festivals for the last two years, and a finalist for Podcast of the Year by The Drum Awards in London for a taping she did inside an experimental fighter plane.

Strong previously served as an editorial director of the MIT Technology Review where she created and hosted In Machines We Trust, a podcast The New York Times cited as one of 2023's best on AI. Prior to joining MIT, Strong led long-form audio for The Wall Street Journal where she created and hosted the first three seasons of WSJ’s The Future of Everything, and where she was an architect of the paper’s first digital audio efforts in the mid-2000s. As a radio anchor for Dow Jones, she hosted one of the very first newsroom podcast series, WSJ’s Tech News Briefing.

Strong has also produced a business show for NPR and reported on national security topics for PRI. She’s been a keynote stage host and moderator at the United Nations General Assembly, SXSW, Web Summit, Bio, Emtech, AI for Good Global Summit, The Future of Everything Festival, and many others.

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