Award-winning journalist John Pilger tells the real story of Rupert Murdoch’s introduction of new technology in the 1980s. . . .
Category: Stories/Anecdotes
New Zealand Novice
Newspaper Compositor Graeme How of the Wairoa Star, Wairoa, New Zealand takes us back to his first day on a Linotype. . . .
Advance Memories
Albert W Perez sent in this story about some of the characters who worked at the Daily Advance in Dover, New Jersey. . . .
How we did things at the Sunday Telegraph
George Clark takes us back to London’s Fleet Street, from the 1960s onwards. . . .
Sunday Telegraph Grass Ship
George Clark tells us about his 22 years on the Sunday Telegraph and takes issue with a couple of points made in Malcolm Gregory’s “Fleet Street Piecework” story. . . .
Fleet Street Piecework
Malcolm Gregory describes his time working on the Daily Telegraph in London’s Fleet Street from the early 70s to the closure in 1987. . . .
Hot Metal in Australia
Arthur Johnson tells us about his career and the work he is still doing with Hot Metal in Gulgong, NSW, Australia. . . .
Glossary of Printing Trade Terms
George Clark sent in this very interesting list of old printing trade terms. . . .
Canadian “Typeset”
Roy Daniels tells us about his printing career in Canada from the age of 15. . . .
The Linecaster
A new poem written and sent in by Mike Wilson of Bridlington in the UK. . . .