Media evolution
From page numbers to iPhone apps
More Americans go online for their news online than pick up a newspaper or turn on the radio, according to the latest study by the Pew Research Center's Internet and the American Life project.
The swift evolution of digital media from early experiments to mainstream acceptance will be the subject of a lecture to be delivered by one of the editors of Slate, the pioneering online news magazine, on Wednesday, March 10.
June Thomas, the foreign editor for Slate, will present From Page Numbers to iPhone Apps: My Thirteen Years at Slate.com at 7 p.m. in the Ellison Lecture Hall in Watson Fine Arts. The lecture is free and open to the public.
As the magazine's foreign editor, Thomas is in charge of the "Foreigners," "Dispatches," "War Stories," "Fighting Words," and "Well-Traveled" departments. A self-confessed television addict, June also writes entertainment news and occasionally podcasts for Slate in conjunction with its partner National Public Radio.
Before joining the magazine, she was an editor and foreign rights manager at Seal Press and managing editor of Women in Translation, a publishing company specializing in women's writing from around the world. She was born and raised in Manchester, England.
The lecture is the inaugural event for the journalism studies minor at Wheaton, an interdisciplinary minor aimed at preparing liberal arts graduates for a career in or graduate study in journalism.
