As the pivotal Y2K moment drew closer, TV news divisions devoted dozens of hours of airtime to New Year’s Eve. CNN planned 100 consecutive hours of coverage, ...

Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.

Governments spent billions on Y2K compliance. News anchors told us that the global economy was hanging by a thread, just waiting for a single tick of the clock to throw us into darkness.

I wrote some background copy to prepare for the 2000 New Year’s article. What I didn’t do was write two different versions, as reporters sometimes do when the outcome of a news event is uncertain.

Zachary Loeb, Purdue University assistant professor, tells NPR's Juana Summers that the real story of Y2k wasn't about computers run amok. It was about experts sounding an alarm, and fixing problems.

In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.

In the lead up to January 1, 2000, television reporters rabidly covered doomsayers’ predictions about technology’s downfall.