That's what we used at the former Evening Sentinel, the Valley-centric daily paper based in Ansonia.
Former colleagues of a certain age will remember things like copy paper, hand-drawn page layouts, and manually sizing black and white photos fresh out of the darkroom. (I had more trouble learning how to use that danged percentage sizing wheel.)
We graduated to electric typewriters (woo hoo!) before the company finally got us big, cumbersome computer monitors. With their arrival came a bit of a learning curve for all of us.
Fast forward to 2018: Over the weekend I saw The Post, a movie about The Washington Post publishing The Pentagon Papers way back in 1971.
While I wasn't working at that time - I'm not quite that old - when I did arrive at The Sentinel technology had not yet taken hold.
We used old-school procedures to put our paper out. So I could definitely relate to a lot of what I saw on the big screen: the newsroom, the press room, the deadlines, and the atmosphere of the time. People actually smoked at their desks. Ugh.
The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg, is a compelling film starring Meryl Streep as Post owner Katharine Graham - the first female publisher of a major American newspaper - and Tom Hanks as the no-nonsense newspaperman, Executive Editor Ben Bradlee.
Their relationship and their friendships with key people in the government underscore the human side of editorial decision-making.
Go see the movie if you're at all a fan of newspapers, American history, politics, or all three!
No comments:
Post a Comment