about the MIT news office

The MIT News Office is dedicated to communicating to the media and the public the news and achievements of the students, faculty, staff and the greater MIT community. We help promote the institute's leadership by:

reporting MIT news

The News Office informs the MIT community, the general public, and the news media about MIT news and research, through these venues:

• News Office web site - up-to-date and breaking MIT news, with RSS feeds available
• MIT Tech Talk - the primary, Institute-wide newspaper, published 30 times a year
• MIT podcast - a four-minute weekly audio news wrap of top MIT news
• MIT E-News - a monthly email newsletter
• News media outreach - We work with journalists, photographers and broadcasters to keep them up to date about noteworthy MIT news, research and campus events. We distribute press releases and research tip sheets, and respond to media requests for experts, leads and photographs.

facilitating PR outreach for the MIT community

• Structure high-level communications campaigns and initiatives for departments, research labs, and centers.
• Coordinate special events including major announcements, news conferences, and symposiums, with the goal of generating increased MIT visibility in the news media.
• Help place opinion pieces by faculty, staff and administrators.
• Facilitate professional peer exchange with other MIT communicators through MIT Editors Club.
• Offer guidance and assistance about how to work more closely with the news media, including putting MIT groups in touch with key science and technology reporters.
• Offer the community tips on:
  • Publishing news through the MIT News Office
  • Writing news: a quick primer

providing photography, film and video

The News Office prepares supporting visual materials for all news-related needs.

• Photography - Provide photographs of individuals, research initiatives and events for internal and external use.
• Film requests - Act as a liaison between the Institute and organizations wishing to film on campus.
• B-roll and video releases - Provide video news releases (VNR) and video (B-roll) for use by media outlets.
• On-campus broadcasting - Bring together the broadcast media (television and radio) with MIT newsmakers and commentators by utilizing MIT's on-campus video productions facility.

contact

For any of these services or other information, please contact the MIT News Office.

The MIT News Office
Building 11, Room 400

related

MIT Communications Offices

The MIT News Office is the primary news and public relations resource at MIT. See also:

• MIT Media Lab press liaison
• MIT Sloan School of Management Newsroom
• MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Newsroom
• MIT Center for International Studies - Press Inquiries
• MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering - News media inquiries
• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - News
• McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT - For the media
• Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Newsroom

links

• Government and Conmmunity Relations
• MIT Washington Office
• MIT publications list
• The Tech (student newspaper)

TESTIMONIAL

"The News Office was of great help in disseminating the results of my group's biomimetic work on underwater fish-like vehicles to the public. Without the News Office, my work would be years behind."

Michael S. Triantafyllou, Professor of Ocean Engineering and principal investigator on the RoboTuna. Scientific American commissioned a painting of RoboTuna for its cover story.