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Does being published in MIT Technology Review get your brand cited by AI?
The Machine Relations Index has not yet seen AI answer engines cite MIT Technology Review in its 21,813 measured answer runs over 143 days of collection. Coverage there can still matter to readers; it is not yet what AI engines reach for on the buyer questions the Index measures.
How to get into MIT Technology Review
Essays (op-eds taken very sparingly)
The print magazine runs reported essays and book essays with a sharp thesis. The pitching guide says the publication takes op-eds very sparingly.
Email an essay pitch to [email protected], as the pitching guide directs for features, essays and print ideas.
Essay pitches need a clear argument: what you want to say, why you are qualified to write about it, the takeaways for readers and the evidence you will use. The same no-AI rule applies to pitches. Length and response time for essays are not separately stated.
MIT Technology Review’s own pageHow to pitch MIT Technology Review (freelance pitches)
MIT Technology Review commissions news stories, analysis pieces and features from freelance journalists for its website and bimonthly print magazine, and says it welcomes pitches from writers of all skill levels and backgrounds.
Writers who have not yet written for the publication or been in touch with a specific editor should email [email protected] for online news and analysis stories, or [email protected] for features, essays and ideas for the print magazine (including responses to print pitch calls). Introduce yourself and include links to a few relevant clips.
News and analysis stories are generally 800 to 1,000 words; features 2,500 to 4,000 words; print front-of-book items 350 to 750 words. A pitch should explain why readers should care and why now, with a clear top line, and should note how it differs from recent coverage. Do not use AI to write the pitch: the publication screens for AI writing and AI-written pitches are deleted automatically. Print feature pitches follow themed issues with rough deadlines (for example, March/April 2027 'Fringe' pitches due mid-September 2026 and May/June 2027 'Automation' pitches due mid-November 2026). Pay ranges from $1 to $2 per word. Response time is not stated.
MIT Technology Review’s own pageInnovators Under 35
An annual global list of 35 young scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs, produced by the newsroom since 1999. The public can nominate candidates, including themselves; editors pick semifinalists, expert judges score them, and editors choose the winners. Regional editions are run separately.
Submit a free nomination through the official nomination platform (https://35innovators.secure-platform.com/a/) while nominations are open. Questions go to [email protected].
Free to nominate; self-nominations are encouraged and past unsuccessful nominees may be renominated. Nominees must be under 35 as of October 1 of the award year; submit one nomination per person. For the 2026 list, nominations closed at 5 p.m. ET on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, and semifinalists were notified by early March and asked to complete an application with a CV, proof of age and three references. The nomination platform says nominations are closed and that nominations for the 2027 list will open in December 2026.
MIT Technology Review’s own pageEvent speaker nomination
MIT Technology Review's events (such as EmTech) accept speaker nominations from the public, including self-nominations.
Fill out the speaker nomination form linked from the Help page (https://events.technologyreview.com/speaker-nomination/, which opens a Microsoft Forms form).
Selection criteria and response policy are not stated.
MIT Technology Review’s own page
Checked against MIT Technology Review’s own pages on 2026-10-06.
Is a placement here worth pursuing?
It depends on the questions your buyers ask. Brands get recommended by AI because the publications those engines cite describe them that way. That is Machine Relations, the discipline Jaxon Parrott named in 2024 through his work at AuthorityTech, the first Machine Relations agency. The table above is what decides whether coverage in MIT Technology Review moves your brand in AI answers at all: it moves where the publication is already cited for the question your buyer asks, and much less where it is not.
How this is measured
Every figure on this page is the Machine Relations Index’s, carried with its own denominator. The Index runs buyer questions against 0 answer engines and records which sources each answer cites. This release covers 2026-05-10 to 2026-10-06, 143 days of collection. A publication carries a published rank once it clears the Index's evidence floor of 10 observations across 7 collection dates; below it, the standing reads as still collecting. AuthorityTech does not compute these numbers. Machine Relations Index publishes them, release 2026-10-06, methodology mri_score_v2.0.