I found this on Imgur, but it’s originally from alamy which says that it’s from the 1930s.
Can it be done? Well, the answer is Yes. When was it done? The first newspaper to go online was The Columbus Dispatch on July 1, 1980, but I’m not sure what Newspaper was the first to show a “fully printed’’ Front Page, I guess it would have been a jpeg like all the kids are doing these days.
Here are the face behind the presses. Top row from left, ink setter Enrique Romero, color setter David Oma, press operator Joaquin Velasquez, first color pressman Daniel Koval and color setter specialist Jeron Bostic. Middle row from left, pressman Samuel Pulido, pressman Paul Rogers, operator Marc Strong, pressman Alex Borjon and Roller specialist Emmet Jaime. Bottom row from left, pressman Craig Pesky, pressroom shift supervisor Kal Hamalainen, pressman second color Jonathan De Leon, press operator Raul Aceves and press operator Jimmy Chadwick.
The March 11 edition of the Los Angeles Times print edition will be its last at the Los Angeles Times Olympic printing plant in Los Angeles.
LA Times
The presses have gone silent.
Starting with the March 12 print edition, the paper will be printed in Riverside by the Southern California Newspaper Group, with its circulation numbers remaining the same.
The Mass Communications students over at Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction Colorado put together this documentary about The Daily Sentinel.
Interesting perspective from outside of the Newspaper and Newspaper business.
Good to see some of the folks that I used to work for: Denny Herzog; Bob Silbernagel, Editorial Page Editor; George Orbanek, Editor & Publisher; Laurena Davis who was a reporter when I was there, but I believe, eventually moved up to City Editor.
Also nice to see that the Newspaper heavily promoted the premier of the doc… shown at the Avalon Theatre.
I just saw this from a few years back.I’ve worked at several newspapers that had similar displays, be we called them just that, “Displays,” and not museums.
Anyone been there? Is there more than just this one cabinet? I certainly hope so.
From 1921, this youngster is hawking The Washington Daily News. Check out the hed:
It’s a hed that could be in any of today’s Newspapers … except readers probably wouldn’t know what rends means
This is major. Pulitzer Prize major. Very well done and a great effort!!
The Kansas City Star didn’t just issue an apology, they aired all their dirty laundry starting from the newspaper’s founding in 1880 in a six-part series.
The Kansas City Star prides itself on holding power to account. Today we hold up the mirror to ourselves to see the historic role we have played, through both action and inaction, in shaping and misshaping Kansas City’s landscape.
It is time that we own our history.
It is well past time for an apology, acknowledging, as we do so, that the sins of our past still reverberate today.
Today The Star presents a six-part package. It is the result of a team of reporters who dug deeply into the archives of The Star and what was once its sister paper, The Kansas City Times. They pored over thousands of pages of digitized and microfilmed stories, comparing the coverage to how those same events were covered in the Black press — most notably by The Kansas City Call and The Kansas City Sun, each of which chronicled critical stories the white dailies ignored or gave short shrift.
Our reporters searched court documents, archival collections, congressional testimony, minutes of meetings and digital databases. Periodically, as they researched, editors and reporters convened panels of scholars and community leaders to discuss the significant milestones of Black life in Kansas City that were overlooked or underplayed by The Star and The Times.
Kansas City Star
Here’s links to the series:
Saw this on Google maps Street View:
This is the former home of the Estes-Park Trail-Gazette, or as we used to fondly call it, the Estes-Park Elk-Head Gazette:
I believe they’re dropped the elk head from the web edition, but I do see it pop up every once in a while. The Flag was designed by Terry Licence, our publisher,
Anyway, the old sod is now the home of The Barrel, a craft beer & wine eatery.
In the first photo, the newsroom and production department was on the right side of the building, where the awnings are located.
Double doors are “new” meaning they were not there when I worked at the newspaper.
The door on the far right was glass and I sat right in front of it for many years. In the summer, I would prop it open with my trash can to catch a breeze. I recall getting pissed off at people who walk by and throw their trash in it!
“Biden on the Brink” seemed to be the most popular hed on the Front Pages, but I won’t post all of those.
However, hear are some standouts.
As always, images are copyrighted by the Newspapers and are from my good friends over at the Newseum. Head on over to see them all.
As always, Front Page images are property of each of these Newspapers. Thanks to be good friends over at the Newseum for the images.
Stay turned for tomorrow edition of Election Night Front Pages.
And in the future, I’m sure I’ll have some before (he wins) and after (He really lost) Front Pages.
Head on over to the Atlanta History Center and take a look at The Atlanta Barb, an Atlanta, Ga., Newspaper from the ’70s whcih covered the LGBTQ community from 1974-1977.
The Barb contained articles on a variety of subjects for its Atlanta LGBTQ audience. Subjects included arts and entertainment, health, politics, social events, and the LGBTQ community. Most articles focused on Atlanta, but some extended to the south or the rest of the United States.
… regular columns included movie and theater reviews, updates on local drag shows and competitions, classified and personals, and health and sex advice. Issues also contain advertisements and announcements from local businesses, particularly bars and restaurants
Atlanta History Center, About this collection
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