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For The Daily crowd - 82lsju - 08-02-2011

is this how it worked way back when?

Students Put Out An Issue Of The School Paper Using Tools Of Yore

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/02/students-put-out-an-issue-of-the-school-paper-using-tools-of-yore/?fb_comment_id=fbc_10150335977255409_18477491_10150336225970409#f1fde87337f26b4

how to build a newsroom time machine

http://journoterrorist.com/2011/08/02/paperball2/#

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Re: For The Daily crowd - CompSci87 - 08-02-2011

I don't know about the Daily, but that routine is pretty close to what we did on my high school newspaper in the mid-'70s. I think we let the reporters hand in either typewritten or handwritten stories. Most of the typewriters around were manual. Our photographers used 35mm film and developed/printed it in our own darkroom. Typesetting was done with Varityper machines. We fixed small typos made with the Varityper by typing the corrected word in the margin, cutting it out with an Ex-acto knife, and pasting it on top of the mistake. Layout was done by rolling hot wax onto the back of the Varityper output and the photo prints, then sticking them onto layout sheets. Our shop teacher then photographed the layouts and gave us the negatives of each page to be further corrected by painting over unwanted clear spots with opaquing fluid and pasted up in pairs to make a side of each printed sheet (and woe betide us if we got them in the wrong order). Finally, we gave the pages back to the shop teacher and he'd run off the newspaper on his photo-offset machine.

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