''The Tech'', first published on November 16, 1881, is the campus newspaper at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the ...
in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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. 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
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, and continues to publish online in tandem with the print edition.
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"The Tech, Then and Now"
''MIT Technology Review
''MIT Technology Review'' is a bimonthly magazine wholly owned by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and editorially independent of the university. It was founded in 1899 as ''The Technology Review'', and was re-launched without "The" in ...
'', June 23, 2008.
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. Since February 2015 the newspaper publishes weekly, reduced from its previous twice-weekly frequency. The online website is updated more frequently.
Since Fall 2015, ''The Tech'' has been printed by Turley Publications. From 2014 to 2015, the newspaper was printed by Upper Valley Press, after MassWeb Printing was acquired. From 2010 to 2014, the newspaper was printed by the Mass Web Printing Company, a unit of
Phoenix Media/Communications Group
Phoenix Media/Communications Group is an American, Boston, Massachusetts-based corporation with several publishing and broadcasting interests.
Operations
Phoenix Media's current outlets include the '' Portland Phoenix'' of Maine, and it pre ...
, previously the publisher of the ''
Boston Phoenix
''The Phoenix'' (stylized as ''The Phœnix'') was the name of several alternative weekly periodicals published in the United States of America by Phoenix Media/Communications Group of Boston, Massachusetts, including the ''Portland Phoenix'' and ...
''. From 2000-2009, the newspaper 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
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Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...
, first publishing online in 1993.
Earlier,
StarText StarText may refer to :
* StarText – The Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Tandy Corporation service;
*Programme Delivery Control
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, the ''
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
The ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'' is an American daily newspaper serving Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the western half of the North Texas area known as the Metroplex. It is owned by The McClatchy Company.
History
In May 1905, Amon G. Carter acc ...
s videotex system which displayed newspaper content on computer screens, began in 1982 in
Fort Worth, Texas
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(but did not go on the Internet until 1996). In 1987, the ''Middlesex News'' (
Framingham, Massachusetts
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) launched
Fred the Computer
Fred may refer to:
People
* Fred (name), including a list of people and characters with the name
Mononym
* Fred (cartoonist) (1931–2013), pen name of Fred Othon Aristidès, French
* Fred (footballer, born 1949) (1949–2022), Frederico R ...
, 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,
and most issues are accessible as
PDF
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files, including the first issue, edited by Arthur W. Walker, which was originally printed by Alfred Mudge & Son, Printers, located at 34 School Street in Boston.
Notable alumni
*
Karen W. Arenson – education writer for ''
The New York Times
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''
*
Wesley Chan
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– prominent venture capitalist and
Google Analytics
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As o ...
and
Google Voice
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founder
*
Noam Chomsky
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– father of modern linguistics - world-wide author and lecturer on world politics
*
Simson L. Garfinkel – writer for ''
Technology Review
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,'' ''
Wired
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'' and the ''
Boston Globe
''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
''
*
James R. Killian, Jr.
James Rhyne Killian Jr. (July 24, 1904 – January 29, 1988) was the 10th president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1948 until 1959.
Early life
Killian was born on July 24, 1904, in Blacksburg, South Carolina. His father ...
– 10th president of MIT
*
Steve Kirsch – entrepreneur and philanthropist
*
Harry Ward Leonard
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– electrical engineer and inventor
*
Arthur Dehon Little
Arthur Dehon Little (December 15, 1863 – August 1, 1935) was an American chemist and chemical engineer. He founded the consulting company Arthur D. Little and was instrumental in developing chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Insti ...
– founded the consulting company
Arthur D. Little
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and was instrumental in developing chemical engineering at MIT
*
Patrick Joseph McGovern, Jr. – chairman and founder of
International Data Group
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(IDG)
*
Paul Schindler
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- American journalist known for being the software reviewer on the popular television program Computer Chronicles
*
Larry Stark
Larry Stark (born August 4, 1932 in New Brunswick, New Jersey) is an American journalist and reviewer best known for his in-depth coverage of the Boston theater scene at his website, Theater Mirror. In newspapers and online, Stark has written hund ...
(pseudonym Charles Foster Ford) – Boston theater critic who started writing for ''The Tech'' in the years 1962-64
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* Len Tower Jr. – founding board member of the Free Software Foundation
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, and activist with the GNU Project
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