Richard Gingras, Google’s longtime global vice president for news — one of the most influential people in journalism in the last decade — announced last week that he was retiring from the company. In an email to colleagues titled “Onward, the next chapter,” Gingras said a focus of his future work would be, “How can we bring people together?”
Although he is most famous for his time at Google, his previous jobs in media and tech companies show he has often been ahead of the curve. In 1979, Gingras ran a test for KCET-TV on “broadcast teletext” that provided a prescient look at what the internet and Google would eventually provide. The segment looks a little silly now, but it shows his smart sense of where technology was headed.
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