The Times' newsroom set to ring with the sounds of typewriters once more

[3_Octave_Fart]

Pretty fun story.
Now if only to pump cigarette smoke through the ventilation and fetch the bottle of Evan Williams from the top drawer (next to the Pepto, next to the X-Acto knife).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/the-times-newsroom-set-to-ring-with-the-sounds-of-typewriters-once-more-9692335.html

 

[britwrit]

What about the teletype machines and gruff old editors calling for a copyboy?

This is going to be a bust.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

What is it about newspapers and useless ideas that just go together?

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Easy target.
Anything dying or already obsolete will look ridiculous with passage of time.
Think about road maps and film developing centers, and try not to smile.

 

[Riptide]

Side note: It's the Times of London.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

Wink-wink to the posters here who swing from the ballsac of "the Times."

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Easy target.
Anything dying or already obsolete will look ridiculous with passage of time.
Think about road maps and film developing centers, and try not to smile.

It's not even the dying or obsolecence. It's the stupidity that goes with it. Seriously, the business has a multitude of problems, yet, the highly-paid execs sit around their boardrooms and come up with a dumb idea such as pumping in volume of typewriters to motivate their staff?

 

[Tarheel316]

Pretty fun story.
Now if only to pump cigarette smoke through the ventilation and fetch the bottle of Evan Williams from the top drawer (next to the Pepto, next to the X-Acto knife).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/the-times-newsroom-set-to-ring-with-the-sounds-of-typewriters-once-more-9692335.html

As well as the proportion wheel and editors saying "cut it where it falls" when stories are too long.

 

[I Should Coco]

Still have my pica pole. Makes a good back-scratcher.

 

[old_tony]

Pretty fun story.
Now if only to pump cigarette smoke through the ventilation and fetch the bottle of Evan Williams from the top drawer (next to the Pepto, next to the X-Acto knife).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/the-times-newsroom-set-to-ring-with-the-sounds-of-typewriters-once-more-9692335.html

As well as the proportion wheel and editors saying "cut it where it falls" when stories are too long.

And the drawer full of velox headshots.

 

[Tarheel316]

Pretty fun story.
Now if only to pump cigarette smoke through the ventilation and fetch the bottle of Evan Williams from the top drawer (next to the Pepto, next to the X-Acto knife).

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/the-times-newsroom-set-to-ring-with-the-sounds-of-typewriters-once-more-9692335.html

As well as the proportion wheel and editors saying "cut it where it falls" when stories are too long.

And the drawer full of velox headshots.

That's funny. We decided a few years ago to cut our all-county basketball team from 10 to 5. This one coach was really upset about it. I told him years ago (before I got here) that all-county was five. He said no way. So I dug into the drawer and found an all-county pic from 1992. There were five players in the picture. He was one of them.

 

[Bradley Guire]

I downloaded the Hanx Writer app mentioned in the story. It's kinda fun. I might use it next time I need to type something. Hopefully it's not full of bugs and crashes.

 

[trifectarich]

As inane as this might be, you always snapped to attention when the bells on the teletype machine started ringing.

 

[CD Boogie]

What happened to the tried and true approach of chaining reporters to their desks?

 

[DeskMonkey1]

I sometimes watch old movies/TV shows that take place in a newsroom and think "Man, I would have loved working in those days."

I started my (college) career right as the old technologies were going out of style. I believe my college paper got its macs with Quark the spring before I arrived in the fall.

 

[Madison Sports]

In the early days of pagination (around 1990), our Harris terminal keyboards had a rocker switch in back that turned on a click that you would then hear with every keystroke. The corporate trainer told me that "feature" was requested by newsroom employees who said they had a hard time concentrating without noise as they worked.

 

[awriter]

Easy target.
Anything dying or already obsolete will look ridiculous with passage of time.
Think about road maps and film developing centers, and try not to smile.

It's not even the dying or obsolecence. It's the stupidity that goes with it. Seriously, the business has a multitude of problems, yet, the highly-paid execs sit around their boardrooms and come up with a dumb idea such as pumping in volume of typewriters to motivate their staff?

I don't know, I think this is brilliant. In fact, if newspapers are going to go retro, I say go all the way. Don't stop at typewriters. Restore all the space they've cut back on over the years. Fill all the positions that were slashed. Start giving staffers raises again and bring back all the benefits that got stripped from them. One day, it's the sound of typewriters filling newsrooms. The next it's newspapers looking like, well, newspapers.