Blog Insights: Old Media Assimilating New Media, or Other Way Around?

By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

I used to work at a small weekly where we had manual typewriters and a typesetting machine that still created type with metal slugs. I learned how to run the brand-spankin' new phototypesetting machine when it came in, and marveled about how the media business was changing. A few years later, even the phototypesetting machines became obsolete, and all the layout was done digitally on PCs. I didn't know it at the time, but that was only the beginning. Of course, the old-timers decried the computerized machines and sang the praises of the "hot type" equipment, but I could tell right away that its days were numbered, and that the news business would be all the better for it.

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