Jennifer Strong

Jennifer Strong is an independent journalist covering the impact of AI on the way we live and work. She’s the creator of tech podcasts for The Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, ProPublica and others. Her storytelling has been reviewed by The New York Times, recognized by awards juries dozens of times, and chosen as finalist selections at the New York Festivals the last three years, winning bronze in 2024. A recent Yale and Pulitzer Center Fellow, Strong's current projects include a radio documentary for NPR stations called The Race to Superintelligence and the weekly podcast SHIFT with Jennifer Strong that's distributed by PRX.

Previously, she served as editorial director of audio & live at the MIT Technology Review. A 2021 Webby winner, she was also the executive producer of "The Extortion Economy" and host of "In Machines We Trust," a podcast about AI. She previously led long-form audio for The Wall Street Journal, where she created and hosted "The Future of Everything" podcast—winner of the 2019 Webby for “Best Tech Podcast,” the New York Press Club Award for “Best Podcast,” and an iHeartRadio Podcast Awards finalist. Her "Next Battlefield" miniseries exploring artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and the changing nature of warfare won “Best Online News Reporting” from the Military Reporters & Editors Association, and she’s also won awards for reporting for Public Radio International and the public radio program Marketplace. She's a 2019 Goldschmidt Fellow for data journalism and co-chair of the United Nation’s AI for Good Global Summit strategy lab exploring how newsrooms can prepare to report on the use and impacts of AI.