 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 |
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]
Contents
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]