News highlighting IRENE technology:
- You Can Play the Record, but Don’t Touch, NPR, July 2007
- Sound Recording Predates Edison Phonograph, NPR, March 2008
- Playback: 130-Year-Old Sounds Revealed, Smithsonian Institution, December 2011
- Alexander Graham Bell goes digital, CNN, December 2011
- A Voice from the Past: How a physicist resurrected the earliest recordings, The New Yorker, May 2014
- Berkeley Lab’s Sound Restoration System Gets in the Groove with Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, September 2014
- A Hefty Challenge for IRENE: Working with Delaminating Lacquer Discs, NEDCC, 2015
- Preserving songs from fragile records for posterity, The Hindu, updated July 2016
- Waxing Poetic: New Tech Revives Sounds from Past Treasures, The California Magazine, January 2017
- For Native American student, reclaiming his culture began at Berkeley, UC Berkeley News, June 2018
- Finding the Words: New technology and new thinking are helping Native American communities revitalize their languages, NEH Humanities Magazine, Fall 2019