Technology & Innovation — February 9, 2010

Media News Round-Up

Orion Jones

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Jay Leno’s primetime show will end quietly tomorrow night.

A once-major newspaper editor in England joins the paywall debate.

More journalists are being given cameras as the digital age continues to change news.

Here is one such video report from Haiti about the medical evacuation crisis.

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Union soldiers in blue uniforms escort prisoners past a burning building with a large hole in the wall while smoke and flames rise, during the American Civil War.

Books

The rise and fall of John Wilkes Booth: America’s first celebrity assassin

Before becoming America’s most infamous assassin, John Wilkes Booth was a magnetic actor who was beloved by audiences and courted by critics.

A person is lying down in the dark and looking at a smartphone held above their face.

The Present

Potato chips or heroin? The debate on social media and mental health

What are we supposed to do when experts look at the same data yet reach starkly different conclusions?

High Culture

How the internet changed news, according to The Onion

What you can learn about media by parodying it from the print era into the digital age.

An illustration of a futuristic city cradled in a hand, set against a gradient orange background, with the title "The Techno-Humanist Manifesto" at the top.

The Present

A new vision for the advancement of humanity

The world needs a moral defense of progress based in humanism and agency.

a man sitting in a wheel chair next to a laptop.

High Culture

Stephen Hawking’s famous voice belonged to this pioneering MIT scientist

Dennis Klatt developed trailblazing text-to-speech systems before losing his own voice to cancer.

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