Dave, I am currently Visiting Fellow at the Reuter Institute for the Study of Journalism at Oxford University. I was a Reuter Fellow in 1990 and I am back to look at the tech we used then, and how it impacted on our news-gathering. We were an international group and take-up of tech was much more varied than it is now. Myself, I started at hot-metal publication in UK in the the 70s, then web-offset litho (I think it was called that) then TV - typewriters to computers - and now I freelance for BBC radio, and its digital sites. I'll be pulling my Reuter research together from now til early summer, but contact me soonest if you'd like to. Best, Christine On 10 March 2016 at 20:36, Dave Walden <dave.walden.family@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, I am interested in sources on the history of computer technology coming into newspapers and newsrooms. I am less interested in the aspects of digital type (as that is broader than newspapers). I am interested digital typesetting, layout, and intra-institution communication in newspapers and in the companies that provided this technology to newspapers if it was not home grown. I would be happy to read an treatment of the whole spectrum all the way to printing the actual newspaper sheets, if such a thing exists. I have some bits of material already, and will shortly be heading out to Boston area libraries (BPL, MIT, Athenaeum, ...), if someone happens to know that one such institution is strong in the newspaper technology history area. I will also take a look at the library Printing Museum near Boston and the history of printing collection at the public library in Providence. Thanks, Dave
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