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Category: 
Overall Excellence > Website of the Year

Title of entry: 
IEEE Spectrum Onine

Issue or Publication date:
October 2025; June 23, 2025; November 23, 2025; September 22, 2025; April 16, 2025; September 11, 2025; February 4, 2025; June 2, 2025; October 2, 2025; November 5, 2025

Publication name: 
IEEE Spectrum

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https://spectrum.ieee.org/

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Entry Essay: 
IEEE Spectrum is the flagship magazine and website of the IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization for engineers and technologists. Spectrum’s print edition is sent monthly to the IEEE’s 500,000 members. The website posts a daily mix of news, features, commentary, and multimedia, attracting about 1 million visitors a month. Our mission: to keep people informed about major developments in technology, engineering, and science. Our readers want complex concepts explained in plain, jargon-free language, with details they can’t get elsewhere. They count on Spectrum for thoughtful discussion of technology’s social impacts as well as expert analysis of trends and cutting-edge research.
The URLs in our entry were chosen to convey the quality of our editorial, design, and art—and also the range and depth of our coverage. Because our readers have such varied backgrounds and interests, in comparison with those of many other B to B publications, we must cast our nets widely to capture and hold their interest.
Extended, themed coverage such as our "Scale" report showcase our ability to illuminate the fundamental engineering challenges that define progress. This issue explored how engineers master scale across extraordinary ranges. Compelling infographics by renowned designer Carl De Torres helped readers grasp concepts that can defy comprehension.
Engineers crave insights arising from abundant detail, and that’s a hallmark of our semiconductor reporting. A fine example was our coverage of the heat crisis in chip and system design, part of a comprehensive report on this enormous but mostly overlooked problem. We deployed a similar approach to another vast issue: the astonishingly high costs of failed information-technology projects—failures that burn hundreds of billions of dollars a year.
Spectrum’s readers also relish stories that highlight important but relatively unusual applications of technology. Our coverage of the explosion in gene-sequencing technologies and their applications, as well as our reporting on the Vera C. Rubin observatory in Chile, both fall into that category.
Our readers are also very interested in historical accounts of great engineers and breakthroughs in technology. So when we had the chance to publish an exclusive account of unknown work by Alan Turing, by a preeminent Turing scholar, we pounced. Similarly, our story about the rise of autonomous drones in the war in Ukraine, is an account of history in the making—a watershed moment in warfare being driven almost entirely by technology.
Our story on Hyundai’s massive Metaplant manufacturing complex in Georgia took advantage of unprecedented access. We sent veteran automotive journalists Lawrence Ulrich and Christopher Payne, who delivered a report that vividly and powerfully conveys the astonishing capabilities and resources of a state-of-the-art car making plant.
Finally, Spectrum not only covers tech breakthroughs, we also use our unique access to some of the tech world’s top technologists to express skepticism. Two fine examples from 2025 were a story about humanoid robots and another on artificial general intelligence. Both took on the unrelenting hype swirling in the popular media and in some tech circles and refuted it with calm and authoritative analysis.