The Tech Goes Multimedia in 2012: Year in Review

In 2012 The Tech, MIT’s oldest newspaper, created a new Online Media team to expand their coverage via multimedia, social media, and interactives—and produced terrific results.

Interactives offer quick insights and statistics on topics from religion to university endowments. A powerful series of interactive graphics portrayed the results of The Tech’s survey on stress in student life such as this interactive on the most stressful courses.

Videos included an interview with President L. Rafael Reif, the Dalai Lam’s visit, and the MIT Mystery Hunt.

Being MIT, the student journalists are ambitious—and sharing what they do:

“The Tech also open sourced its breakdown graphic (which can be found at https://github.com/TheMITTech/breakdown) to make it easier for other newsrooms to reuse our code.

“We've had a great first year navigating the intersection of technology and journalism, and as we mature as a department we hope to develop new competencies, templates, and workflows to further streamline our production process. The Tech will continue pushing the envelope of digital and data-driven student journalism.”

Youngsoo Jang ’15, (from left) Ingwon Chae ’14, and Richard C. Yoon ’13 take a break during filming the MIT Gangnam Style video that went viral this last

Download the Year in Review PDF to read these and other highlights:

• HarvardX & MITx merge under edX

• Reif Takes the Reins at MIT

• Changes to the first year experience

• Hacks at MIT

• Reflections on the top video games and films of the year

• Opinion: How should students best respond to the emotional stresses of MIT?

• MIT sports teams had a killer year—find out more.