Anne Stuart

Anne Stuart is a veteran Boston-based writer, editor, instructor, communications professional, and storyteller. Her writing specialty areas include business, technology, higher education, law, media, history, and biography.

She is currently a senior editor at MIT Sloan Management Review and previously held the a similar role at MIT Technology Review. She also served as the communications officer for the MIT’s largest academic unit, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Previously, she was a senior editorial staffer for several national magazines, including CIO and Inc., and a reporter and editor for several daily newspapers and The Associated Press.

Anne’s work has been published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, Newsday, The American Lawyer (and several spinoff legal publications), Harvard Magazine, Northeastern Magazine, American Way (in-flight magazine) and many other print and online publications. As a freelancer, she also writes and edits content for many corporate clients, has edited or contributed chapters to books on business and history, and is writing a book on conducting journalism interviews (scheduled for publication in late 2025). 

She is an adjunct professor in the graduate communication program at Regis College. She has also taught communication and journalism courses at Simmons University, Lasell University, Northeastern University, and Emerson College, and has lectured at numerous other colleges. She has led writing and editing workshops for many other organizations and spoken at many professional conferences.

As a stand-up storyteller, she has performed live in Boston, Cambridge, Somerville, and Lenox, Massachusetts, and been an invited storyteller for Speak Up Storytelling in Hartford, Connecticut, among other venues. Her stories have been featured on Stories From the Stage (PBS) and the Moth Radio Hour (PRX/NPR).

Anne received a bachelor’s degree in journalism and English from Michigan State University, a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and, most recently, an executive certificate in management and leadership from MIT Sloan. 

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Arts & Culture
Business & Finance
Education
Technology
Travel

Specialties

Business. technology, education, law, media, history, biography.

notepad Skills

  • Blog posts
  • Case studies
  • Communications strategy
  • Content marketing
  • Editing
  • Feature writing
  • News releases
  • Op-Ed
  • Profiles
  • Q&A
  • Web copy
  • White papers
  • Books

notepad Writing Credits

Senior editorial staffer at Inc., CIO, Harvard Magazine; senior content editor at MIT Technology Review and MIT Sloan Management Review; reporter/editor The Associated Press and several daily newspapers. Published in The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, Boston Magazine, Newsday, The American Lawyer (and other legal publications), Harvard Magazine, Northeastern Magazine, and American Way, among others. Have edited or contributed chapters to books on management and history and contributed regularly to MIT News. Writing a how-to book on conducting journalism interviews (pub date 2025) and a proposal for a biography.

star Awards, Honors, Appointments

Most recent:

  • Chip Bishop Fellowship, Biographers International Organization (2024)
  • Residency, Rockvale Writers Colony (2024) 
  • MIT Sloan Appreciation Award (2020) 

Earlier: 

  • American Academy of Family Physicians award for medical feature writing
  • American Business Media “Best Startup Publication” (shared)
  • American Business Media Neal Business Journalism Award Finalist (twice)
  • American Society of Business Press Editors “Magazine of the Year” (shared)
  • Associated Press award for environmental coverage (New York State)
  • Jacqueline Radin Scholarship/Newsday Internship, Columbia University
  • Knight Specialized Journalism Program (full fellowships for business seminars, twice)
  • Lasell University Faculty Grant to study media ethics
  • MIT: Arts@MIT grant to produce master storytelling workshop
  • National Press Club (full fellowship for e-commerce seminar)
  • Poynter Institute for Media Studies (full fellowships to media ethics seminars, twice)

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