This was my very first professional, paid newspaper article, published on the back page of the Boston Sunday Globe Ideas section back in August of 2011. I did the fact-checking in the MGH Neo-natal ICU!
WHEN THE NEWS CAME ON WINGS
THIS MONTH, AS the runup to the 2013 America’s Cup gets underway, television viewers of the 160-year-old yacht race will see something new: high-tech graphic overlays for the ocean course, inspired by technologies like the NFL’s digital first-down marker. Larry Ellison, the Cup’s billionaire impresario, hopes the explanatory graphics will help capture the attention of mainstream viewers who know a lot less about sailboat racing than, say, baseball.
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