about the MIT news office

The MIT News Office is the Institute's central hub for news about MIT research, initiatives and events. We report MIT news directly and work with journalists around the world to help showcase the achievements of our students, faculty and staff. Contact us

what we do

• Promote MIT research to the news media, to the general public and to the MIT community
• Write press releases; write and publish news stories
• Arrange interviews with key reporters
• Handle PR for major announcements, news conferences and symposia
• Offer guidance to the MIT community on how to work more closely with the news media and structure PR campaigns

what we publish

• MIT Home Page
• News Office web site
• MIT Tech Talk - Institute-wide newspaper
• RSS feeds
• MIT podcast
• Press releases
• MIT E-News - monthly email newsletter

photography, film and video

We assist MIT community members with:

• Photography - of individuals, research and events
• Film crew requests - we handle all necessary permitting
• Video news releases and B-roll

who we are

• Staff list
• Contact form or email: newsoffice@mit.edu

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 Center for International Studies - Press Inquiries
• Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard - For the media
• McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT - For the media
• Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research Newsroom

links

• Publishing news through the MIT News Office
• Writing news: a quick primer
• 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.