I myself used to be a Web Pressman at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center through most of the eighties after high school and college, then left there and moved then to large commercial sheetfed offset printing here due to the trends in publishing even then when it was evident that those high paying pressman jobs would become fewer and fewer as the years passed.
I fortunately moved to the digital pre-press department in the early nineties after about 4 years running Komori Lithrone's at Aim as that company grew, also taking up typesetting and then desktop publishing in addition learning computers while at home partly in anticipation of this demise of the now called "Dinosaur Media" that we saw in closures, consolidations and layoffs in the printing industry.
And then, personal illness finally ended my career in printing altogether in 1998 and I began to do much of that pre press work from my home and my small business there for many of the contacts I made in my printing days and small printers that didn't have the computers or staff yet in the years that followed into the present
But this monumental digital change is also being hastened by the obvious and overt left wing slant of many of these old time leading publications, thus leading to dwindling circulations just as much as the digital age taking hold and as a result of that we will see more of them closing down like the one below in the very near future.
This is truly the sad end of a great era in our human history and technological revolution that started with the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press and Movable Type and ended with the wonderful advent of Apple and Microsoft in a way. Filed Under Internet, Technology, Dinosaur Media
I fortunately moved to the digital pre-press department in the early nineties after about 4 years running Komori Lithrone's at Aim as that company grew, also taking up typesetting and then desktop publishing in addition learning computers while at home partly in anticipation of this demise of the now called "Dinosaur Media" that we saw in closures, consolidations and layoffs in the printing industry.
And then, personal illness finally ended my career in printing altogether in 1998 and I began to do much of that pre press work from my home and my small business there for many of the contacts I made in my printing days and small printers that didn't have the computers or staff yet in the years that followed into the present
But this monumental digital change is also being hastened by the obvious and overt left wing slant of many of these old time leading publications, thus leading to dwindling circulations just as much as the digital age taking hold and as a result of that we will see more of them closing down like the one below in the very near future.
This is truly the sad end of a great era in our human history and technological revolution that started with the invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press and Movable Type and ended with the wonderful advent of Apple and Microsoft in a way. Filed Under Internet, Technology, Dinosaur Media
World's Oldest Newspaper Goes Digital |
Guardian Unlimited: "STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - For centuries, readers thumbed through the crackling pages of Sweden's Post-och Inrikes Tidningar newspaper. No longer. The world's oldest paper still in circulation has dropped its paper edition and now exists only in cyberspace.
The newspaper, founded in 1645 by Sweden's Queen Kristina, became a Web-only publication on Jan. 1. It's a fate, many ink-stained writers and readers fear, that may await many of the world's most venerable journals." read more
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