Jennifer Strong

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My writing has been recognized by awards juries more than thirty times, including six…

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  • Stitch Fix Uses Machine Learning to Augment the Human Touch

    The Wall Street Journal

    Figuring out how people want their clothing to fit, or if a particular shirt matches their personal sense of style, is tricky, regardless of whether it is done by a human or a bot. It turns out, however, that for publicly traded online shopping and styling service Stitch Fix Inc., pairing the two is helping drive better outcomes.

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  • Deere, Siemens Adapt to Industrial AI

    The Wall Street Journal

    Old-line industrial manufacturers such as Deere & Co. and Siemens AG are remaking their business processes as they embrace artificial intelligence.

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  • For AI to Be Used More, It Needs to Become Boring

    The Wall Street Journal

    For artificial intelligence to be more useful it needs to become boring. Meaning the technology needs to become a standard part of business culture and process, and far less fear-inducing both inside and outside the boardroom, said speakers at the world’s largest electronics show, CES 2019.

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  • AI Touted as Star of CES Tech Show

    The Wall Street Journal

    Trends that emerge from the world’s largest consumer electronics show typically set the tone for the tech industry for the rest of year. Booths showcasing AI-empowered products by large corporations not traditionally associated with the show are reinforcing a notion that this could be the year AI as a concept shifts from being viewed as emerging and enters mainstream consciousness.

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  • P&G Powers New Consumer Products With AI

    The Wall Street Journal

    The six consumer products that Procter & Gamble Co. highlighted Sunday at the Consumer Electronics Show reflect years of work to retool its business for the age of artificial intelligence. The devices use facial recognition to instantly analyze a person’s skin, or give people feedback on how well they are brushing their teeth.

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  • Audio Series: The Price of Climate

    The Wall Street Journal

    The world is warming. Lives and livelihoods will change. So will fortunes.

    The Price of Climate is a series from The Wall Street Journal examining how businesses are anticipating, preparing and reacting to climate change. This three-part audio series follows how the food on our dinner plates is impacted by warming temperatures and changes in weather conditions.

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  • ‘Internet of Battlefield Things’ Transforms Combat

    The Wall Street Journal

    A variety of intelligent and semi-intelligent things are starting to talk to each other and work together on the battlefield, says Dr. Alexander Kott, chief scientist of the United States Army Research Lab.

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  • Robots Head for the Fields

    The Wall Street Journal

    The agricultural industry is coping with a labor shortage. Can AI come to the rescue?

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  • Quantum Computing Will Reshape Digital Battlefield, Says Former NSA Director Hayden

    The Wall Street Journal

    "I don’t know whether quantum computing will inherently favor the offense or inherently favor the defense, when it comes to encryption, security, espionage and so on, but I do know it’s going to affect something,” says Michael Hayden, a former director of the NSA and CIA.

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  • How Computers Could Make Your Customer-Service Calls More Human

    The Wall Street Journal

    The robotic call-center agent reading from a script is getting a makeover as a number of companies develop software to give agents real-time feedback about how their customer conversations are going.

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  • Introducing The Future of Everything Podcast

    The Wall Street Journal

    We’re launching a new podcast series from the journalists behind The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything magazine. Our host, Jennifer Strong, travels coast to coast and goes behind the scenes with the scientists, coders, engineers and entrepreneurs who are designing the way our world will work in the future.

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  • Metro Connection: Route 1

    WAMU 88.5

    We'll travel one of our region's oldest highways — a road that cuts through Maryland, D.C., and Virginia -- as we bring you a show about Route 1. We'll meet the people who live and work along the route, and talk with folks working to spruce it up, including the president of the University of Maryland. Plus, we'll visit the site of George Washington's boyhood home. And we'll stroll through a Route 1 community with an unusual claim to fame, as the only U.S. town surrounded by a military base.

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Honors & Awards

  • 2024 Deadline Club Award for Investigative Reporting

    Society of Professional Journalists

    Our reporting on vocal biomarkers entitled "When AI Hears a Problem" is a finalist best investigative audio - winners to be announced next month.

  • 2024 New York Festivals Bronze Medal

    New York Festivals

    An episode of the In Machines We Trust podcast I taped inside an experimental fighter plane about the future of training fighter pilots was selected by the New York Festivals for the 2024 shortlist and won a bronze medal.

  • 2024 Anthem Awards for Responsible Technology & Best Health Podcast

    Webby Awards

    Our investigative reporting on vocal biomarkers won a silver medal for Best Health Podcast and a bronze medal in the responsible technology category of the Anthem Awards, a special project of the Webby Awards.

  • 2023 Eppy Award for Best Podcast

    Editor & Publisher

    In Machines We Trust won the Eppy for “Best Podcast” for enterprise reporting on AI and hiring.

  • 2023 Silver, Signal Awards

    Signal Awards

    In Machines We Trust won silver for “Best Science and Education” podcast.

  • 2023 Podcast of the Year Finalist

    The Drum Awards

    In Machines We Trust named a finalist for Podcast of the Year by the Drum Awards for Online Media in London.

  • 2023 Webby Nominee for Best Tech Podcast Episode & Best Limited Series

    The Webby Awards

    In Machines We Trust is up for “Best Tech Podcast Episode” and Curious Coincidence is up for “Best Limited Series” in the Health, Science and Education category.

  • 2022 Best in Business Awards

    SABEW (Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing)

    “Farming a War Zone”, an episode of the In Machines We Trust podcast about the rapid adoption of AI enabled farming technologies in war torn Ukraine, was recognized with a Best in Business Honorable Mention.

  • 2023 New York Festivals Shortlist

    New York Festivals

    An episode of the In Machines We Trust podcast “Seeing Double: AI Births Digital Humans” named a finalist selection.

  • 2023 Anthem Award for Responsible Technology

    the Webby Awards

    Our investigative reporting series on the applications of artificial intelligence in the hiring process won a bronze medal in the responsible technology audio category of the Anthem Awards, a special project of the Webby Awards.

  • 2023 Publisher Podcast Awards Nominee for Best Science Podcast, Best Limited Series and Best Tech Podcast

    Publisher Podcast Awards

    Tech Review's audio team was shortlisted in three categories by the Publisher Podcast Awards in London. Curious Coincidence is a nominee for Best Limited Series and for Best Science and Medicine Podcast. In Machines We Trust was named a finalist for the Best Tech Podcast a third year in a row.

  • 2023 Ambie Nominee

    The Podcast Academy

    In Machines We Trust podcast received its second nomination for an Ambie, the academy award of the podcast industry, as a finalist for Best Knowledge, Science, or Tech Podcast.

  • 2022 Gold, Best Limited Series, Signal Awards

    Signal Awards

    Our miniseries about the applications of AI in hiring won a gold medal in the best limited series science podcast category of the Signal Awards.

  • 2022 Clarion Award "Best Podcast"

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  • 2022 Webby Nominee for Best Tech Podcast

    The Webby Awards

    In Machines We Trust was nominated by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) for Best Technology Podcast.

  • 2022 New York Festivals Finalist

    New York Festival Radio Awards

    A miniseries about the uses of AI in hiring from the In Machines We Trust podcast was selected as a finalist for best tech pod.

  • 2022 Ambie Nominee

    The Podcast Academy

    The Extortion Economy podcast was nominated for an Ambie, the podcast industry's academy award for excellence in audio, as a finalist for Best Knowledge, Science, or Tech Podcast.

  • 2021 Front Page Award for Investigative Reporting in Audio

    The Newswomen's Club of New York

    A miniseries investigating automated hiring practices for the In Machines We Trust podcast won the Front Page Award for Investigative Reporting in Audio.

  • 2022 Publisher Podcast Awards Nominee

    Publisher Podcast Awards

    In Machines We Trust was named a finalist by the Publisher Podcast Awards in London for best tech show a second year in a row.

  • 2021 Ambie Nominee

    The Podcast Academy

    Season one of In Machines We Trust was nominated for an Ambie, the podcast industry's academy award for excellence in audio, as a finalist for Best Knowledge, Science, or Tech Podcast.

  • 2021 Webby Nominee for Best Tech Podcast & Social Media: News & Politics

    The Webby Awards

    The first season of In Machines We Trust was nominated by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) for Best Technology Podcast and the show's related social media storytelling is part of a second Webby nomination, for General Social: News and Politics.

  • 2021 Publisher Podcast Awards Nominee for Best Podcast Launch, Best Limited Series and Best Tech Podcast

    Publisher Podcast Awards

    The show's miniseries on the use of facial recognition technology by police was named a finalist for best limited series by the Publisher Podcast Awards in London, which also shortlisted the show's first season for best podcast launch of the year by a publisher and best tech show.

  • 2020 Front Page Award for Investigative Reporting in Audio

    The Newswomen's Club of New York

    An investigation from the In Machines We Trust podcast of the use of facial recognition technologies by police won the Front Page Award for Investigative Audio.

  • 2019 New York Press Club Best Podcast

    New York Press Club

    Three-part audio documentary miniseries on climate change and food production called "The Price of Climate" won the NY Press Club Award for Best Podcast.

  • 2019 Webby for Best Tech Podcast

    The Webby Awards

    The third season of The Future of Everything, a field reported podcast I created and hosted from 2017-2019, won the Webby for Best Tech podcast. The season includes a series on the future of warfare called "Next Battlefield" that built upon my previous national security reporting. We also produced regular episodes on artificial intelligence, the applications of gene editing technology, and a miniseries called "The Price of Climate" about food production and climate change.

    In addition to…

    The third season of The Future of Everything, a field reported podcast I created and hosted from 2017-2019, won the Webby for Best Tech podcast. The season includes a series on the future of warfare called "Next Battlefield" that built upon my previous national security reporting. We also produced regular episodes on artificial intelligence, the applications of gene editing technology, and a miniseries called "The Price of Climate" about food production and climate change.

    In addition to winning the academy's award, we placed second for the People's Choice award in tech.

  • 2019 Best Online News Reporting

    Military Reporters & Editors

    The online category recognizes the year's best explanatory journalism on national security and defense using digital means and is judged by faculty at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The "Next Battlefield" series, which built upon my previous national security reporting for radio, won the award for 2019. It was produced as part of The Future of Everything podcast.

    “Strong brings remarkable insight to her reporting podcasts,” the judges said. “She expertly blends…

    The online category recognizes the year's best explanatory journalism on national security and defense using digital means and is judged by faculty at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The "Next Battlefield" series, which built upon my previous national security reporting for radio, won the award for 2019. It was produced as part of The Future of Everything podcast.

    “Strong brings remarkable insight to her reporting podcasts,” the judges said. “She expertly blends sound and dialogue to create a narrative with complex images, whether discussing a cyberattack on a suburban water plant, a battlefield simulation or the consequences of artificial intelligence.”

  • 2019 Best in Business Awards

    SABEW (Society for Advancing Business Editing & Writing)

    The Best in Business Awards recognized the "Next Battlefield" miniseries with an honorable mention. This was a pet project of mine in 2018, inspired by previous reporting on national security that left me wanting to go deeper.

    Judges comments: This podcast on the innovation of combat is a topic that draws you in and leaves you wanting more. High production values create a podcast that outclasses its peers.

  • Goldschmidt Fellow for Data Journalism

    SABEW (Society for Advancing Business Editing & Writing)

    A deep dive in government data and statistics via on-site trainings with the Congressional Budget Office, White House Council of Economic Advisers, Federal Reserve, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, Census Bureau, USDA and more.

  • 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Finalist

    iHeartRadio

    Finalist for Best Science and Tech Podcast at the 2019 iHeartRadio Podcast Awards for The Future of Everything.

  • 2018 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award

    NYSSCPA

    The episode of WSJ's The Future of Everything podcast called "In Bitcoin We Trust?" won the 2018 award for audio at a large media institution.

  • Moderator, United Nations General Assembly

    United Nations

    Moderated a three-hour panel for the UN Economic and Social Council on the impacts of frontier technology.

  • 2016 National Press Club Award, Honorable Mention

    National Press Club

    "Despite Big Efforts, US is Still a Major Consumer of Illegal Elephant Ivory"

    Investigative reporting on the US market for ivory and how it funds terrorist organizations received an honorable mention in the broadcast category of the Ann Cottrell Free Award, placing second to a team investigation by ABC's Nightline.

  • 2015 Knight Science Journalism at MIT

    MIT

    Awarded and completed two science reporting workshops at MIT in 2015: Frontiers of Brain Science, a neuroscience boot camp for journalists, and the Kavli Science Journalism Workshop on Nanotechnology.

  • 2014 Best Radio Feature, Honorable Mention

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    "When No Money Means No School Lunch"

    Investigative reporting for the public radio show Marketplace received honorable mention at the 67th Annual Garden State Journalism Association Awards.

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