The Tech (newspaper)
The Tech, first published on November 16, 1881, is the campus newspaper at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Editions are published on Thursdays throughout the academic year and about once a month over the summer. The Tech established an early presence on the World Wide Web, and continues to publish online in tandem with the print edition.[1]
Organization
The Tech is a completely student-managed, and largely student-written publication, officially recognized as a student activity by the administration of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The newspaper is largely self-supporting financially, deriving most of its income from advertising. The publication has an advisory board composed primarily of ex-staffers who are alumni of MIT.
Print edition
Printed copies are distributed throughout the MIT campus on the morning of publication. The newspaper now publishes weekly, down from twice weekly since February 2015. Since Fall 2015, "The Tech" has been printed by Turley Publications. From 2014 to 2015, "The Tech" was printed by Upper Valley Press, after MassWeb Printing was acquired. From 2010 to 2014, The Tech was printed by the Mass Web Printing Company, a unit of Phoenix Media/Communications Group, previously the publisher of the Boston Phoenix. From 2000-2009, The Tech was printed by Charles River Publishing in Charlestown and briefly by Saltus Press in Worcester, after Saltus acquired Charles River Publishing.
Web edition
The Tech newspaper was an early publisher on the World Wide Web, first publishing online in 1993.[1][2] Earlier, StarText, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's videotex system which displayed newspaper content on computer screens, began in 1982 in Fort Worth, Texas (but did not go on the Internet until 1996). In 1987, the Middlesex News (Framingham, Massachusetts) launched Fred the Computer, a single-line BBS system used to preview the next day's edition and later to organize the newspaper's past film reviews.
Nearly every published issue of The Tech is available online.[3][4] and most issues are accessible as PDF files. For example, the first issue, edited by Arthur W. Walker, was printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, located at 34 School Street in Boston.[5]
Notable alumni
- Karen W. Arenson - Education writer for The New York Times.
- Wesley Chan - Prominent venture capitalist and Google Analytics and Google Voice founder.
- Simson L. Garfinkel - Writer for Technology Review, Wired and the Boston Globe.
- James R. Killian, Jr. - 10th president of MIT.
- Harry Ward Leonard - electrical engineer and inventor.
- Arthur Dehon Little - founded the consulting company Arthur D. Little and was instrumental in developing chemical engineering at MIT.
- Patrick Joseph McGovern, Jr. - the chairman and founder of International Data Group (IDG)
- Larry Stark (pseudonym Charles Foster Ford) - Famed Boston theater critic Stark started writing for The Tech in the years 1962-64. Stark's review of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Momma's Hung You in the Closet, and I'm Feeling So Sad.[6]
- Len Tower Jr. - Founding Board Member of the Free Software Foundation, and activist with the GNU Project.
References
- 1 2 Kristina Grifantini, "The Tech, Then and Now", MIT Technology Review, June 23, 2008.
- ↑ Gwen Solomon; Lynne Schrum (2007). Web 2.0: New Tools, New Schools. ISTE. p. 225. ISBN 978-1-56484-234-3.
- ↑ T. F. Peterson; Eric Bender (2011). Nightwork: A History of Hacks and Pranks at MIT. MIT Press. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-262-29501-7.
- ↑ "The Tech - Archives". Tech.mit.edu. Retrieved 2015-06-13.
- ↑ Archived June 1, 2010, at the Wayback Machine.
- ↑ Archived June 24, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.