http://www.newdorf.com/old-typewriter?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=old-typewriter California Litigation Blog Thu, 26 Dec 2013 23:38:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://www.newdorf.com/old-typewriter/comment-page-1#comment-11718 Renie Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:29:26 +0000 http://www.newdorf.com/?p=174#comment-11718 My only question is, do those things do spell check??? My only question is, do those things do spell check???

]]> http://www.newdorf.com/old-typewriter/comment-page-1#comment-11716 David Newdorf Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:59:19 +0000 http://www.newdorf.com/?p=174#comment-11716 Thanks, Dan. Yes, I remember feeding you the story half-sheet by half-sheet on deadline. I also remember you shuffling the pages on more than one occasion when I had "buried the lede." Thanks, Dan. Yes, I remember feeding you the story half-sheet by half-sheet on deadline. I also remember you shuffling the pages on more than one occasion when I had “buried the lede.”

]]> http://www.newdorf.com/old-typewriter/comment-page-1#comment-11715 Dan Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:51:04 +0000 http://www.newdorf.com/?p=174#comment-11715 That thing with the half-sheets: Yes, that was definitely the way stories were written and edited. But the reason, from what I saw hustling stories to the city desk a graph at a time, was not ease of reorganization. It was speed. The rewrite guys -- and they were all guys in the newsrooms where I started -- wrote a graph at a time to expedite the process of getting the story in on a tight deadline. Each half-sheet had about four carbon sheets, and those would be distributed to the key editors around the desk. Those "dupes" (for duplicates) allowed the editor to keep track of how the story was taking shape graph by graph. I don't think you'll find any of that stuff on Wikipedia. That thing with the half-sheets: Yes, that was definitely the way stories were written and edited. But the reason, from what I saw hustling stories to the city desk a graph at a time, was not ease of reorganization. It was speed. The rewrite guys — and they were all guys in the newsrooms where I started — wrote a graph at a time to expedite the process of getting the story in on a tight deadline. Each half-sheet had about four carbon sheets, and those would be distributed to the key editors around the desk. Those “dupes” (for duplicates) allowed the editor to keep track of how the story was taking shape graph by graph. I don’t think you’ll find any of that stuff on Wikipedia.

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