Jacob Ward (born 1974) is an American science and innovation columnist. In 2018 he turned into an innovation reporter for NBC News, providing details regarding innovation's social ramifications.

He was the proofreader in-head of Popular Science, and from 2013 to 2018 was a science and innovation reporter for Al Jazeera America and Al Jazeera English.

In 2018 he turned into an individual at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, supported by the Berggruen Institute. 

News coverage 

Ward started as a columnist at The Industry Standard, on the then-arising Internet economy in 1997. Ward joined Popular Science as a representative supervisor in 2006.

In 2012 he succeeded the earlier proofreader in-boss, Mark Jannot. Soon thereafter he was named one of the "Most Intriguing People in Media" by MIN. 

TV and radio 

Ward facilitated The Truth About Traffic on the Discovery Channel in 2009 and was a journalist for Neil DeGrasse Tyson on NOVA ScienceNow on PBS in 2010.

In 2012, Ward facilitated two shows for the National Geographic Channel: a one-hour extraordinary, American's Money Vault, and a second one-hour uncommon, Top Secret.

In 2013, Ward left Popular Science to join Al Jazeera America, a link news network dispatched that very year, as the station's science and innovation reporter. After the closure of the channel, he was held by Al Jazeera for Al Jazeera English.

In December 2018 he started as an innovation journalist on NBC News, revealing for Nightly News, TODAY, and MSNBC as a component of NBC's Business and Technology Unit.