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Tune into the Season 7 Finale of DevNews!

“It’s not enough to have social impact with your technology — you also have this huge responsibility to maintain your technology for the long-term.”

More on that in this week of the DevNews pod

As a refresher, DevNews is the news show for developers by developers. Each season, our hosts cover the latest in the world of tech, and speak with diverse guests from a variety of backgrounds to dig deep into meaty topics such as security, the pros and cons of outsourcing your authentication, and the latest bugs and hacks.

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Guests:

  • Dr. Jeffrey Blevins is a Professor in the Department of Journalism at the University of Cincinnati. His recent book (with Dr. James Jaehoon Lee), "Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks" (University of Cincinnati Press, 2022).
  • Peter Gosselin was a contributing reporter at ProPublica covering aging. In more than three decades as a journalist, he has covered the U.S. and global economies for, among others, the Los Angeles Times and The Boston Globe, focusing on the lived experiences of working people. He is the author of “High Wire: The Precarious Financial Lives of American Families,” for which he devised new data techniques to show that economic risks were being shifted from the broad shoulders of business and government to the backs of working households. In addition to reporting, he has been a visiting fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington, chief speechwriter to the treasury secretary and an economic adviser to the original Department of Health and Human Services team implementing the Affordable Care Act.

In this episode, we talk about various ways in which big tech has lent a hand to Ukraine in their war with Russia. Then we talk about Russian disinformation efforts with Dr. Jeffery Blevins, professor in the Journalism Department at the University of Cincinnati and co-author of the book, Social Media, Social Justice and the Political Economy of Online Networks. Finally, we talk about leaked IBM documents that show the company’s persistent ageism problem with Peter Gosselin, former investigative reporter at ProPublica who co-penned the piece, Cutting ‘Old Heads’ at IBM.


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Thank you so much for joining us for this past season of DevNews. We can't wait to bring you a brand new season of stories that are relevant to software developers everywhere — soon! 📰

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