Goodbye, typewriters: technological change hits the newsroom and the back shop. Reporters complain about word processors, then embrace them. ('76).(Brief Article)

From: Columbia Journalism Review | Date: November 1, 2001| Author: Hoyt, Michael | Copyright information

In those days, boys and girls, we had glue pots on our desks. When we wanted to add a paragraph we would lay down a ruler and tear the story at the point where the new graph was to go, then slap it down and glue the two halves above and below. Our wastebaskets were full of failed leads, ripped out of machines we called typewriters. Sturdy, handsome machines -- Underwoods, Royals, Remingtons -- they seemed permanent, but they were not.

Nor were the Linotype machines in th...

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