Looking Back

1978 | ‘Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu’

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Millard Williams, a substitute printer, on a Linotype machine at The Times in 1959.  The New York Times

David W. Dunlap is a Metro reporter and writes the Building Blocks column. He has worked at The Times for 39 years.

The New York Times has been produced in so many different ways on so many different platforms since 1978 that it would be difficult to count.

It would not be difficult to count the number of ways it was produced before then. Two.

First, there was handset type. Then, beginning in the late 19th century, there was machine-cast type. And that brings us through 127 years of Times history to the night of July 1, 1978; the last time this newspaper was produced in hot type, principally on Linotype machines that cast one line of type at a time from molten lead.
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Good morning. Here is Daily Clip Report, a collection of articles about The Times and the media sent by email each morning to senior executives and newsroom editors. The email is produced by the Corporate Communications Department at The Times.

A Response to President Xi Jinping
The New York Times – 11/12

Chinese President Xi Jinping Suggests News Outlets Are The Ones To Blame For Visa Problems
The Huffington Post – 11/12

New York Times editor fields student questions at Emory
The Emory Report – 11/12

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A Reporter’s Questions About the Climate Change Agreement.

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The Times science reporter John Schwartz, who focuses on climate change, sketches out the questions he’ll be asking in the days ahead.

The climate agreement announced by President Obama and President Xi Jinping of China is long on promises and short on details.

It calls for the United States to cut greenhouse gas emissions by as much as 28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025 — a significant bump from the administration’s earlier goal of reducing those emissions by 17 percent by 2020. For its part, China has agreed to pursue policies that will lead the country to stop its growth in carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, or earlier if possible, and to increase the amount of non-fossil-fuel energy production in China’s mix to about 20 percent by then.
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Story Behind the Story

No Video. No Photos. No Names. Inside New York’s Ebola Monitoring Operation.

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Health department workers in one of their daily meetings at the New York Ebola Command Center. Joshua Bright for The New York Times

New York City’s health department runs a 24-hour-a-day operation that defends against Ebola; its efforts include tracking more than 300 people for symptoms of the disease.

Anemona Hartocollis, a Metro health reporter, wrote about this effort, the largest in the country, in an article in The Times on Wednesday.

Here she chronicles her visit inside the nerve center of the city’s monitoring operation.

We’ve all heard the political debate over quarantine for Ebola patients.

Meanwhile, New York City has been monitoring as many as 357 people, mostly travelers returning from West Africa, for symptoms of the disease.

The number alone made it a massive operation, and my editor asked for an inside look.
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Reading The Times With Patricia Marx

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Patricia Marx is a staff writer for The New Yorker and an author. Her latest book, “Let’s Be Less Stupid,” publishes next summer.

She says she reads the paper on her computer late at night.

“I know it is very unfashionable to dislike paper,” she says, “but I could never get the hang of folding The Times (it always looked as if I was trying to make a hat for a children’s birthday party).

“Also, who has time to look for the continuation of the story on Page A16?”

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Does the late-night, online way you read the paper affect what you read?

A.

My approach has made me fairly malnourished, news-wise, in the same way that someone who eats only at buffets tends to concentrate on dessert.

Also, it means that I am never sure when anything happened. Often, I know about a development in a story or about the death of a famous person hours before the news is printed in the morning paper. It’s like being a visitor from the future.

On the other hand, I sometimes read old news without knowing it was written weeks ago, so I have to be careful not to say things like, “Hey, can you believe the Visigoths sacked Rome?!”
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Tip Sheet

War Reporting as Art in the Flatiron District

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“Eyes on the Ground — Journals of War,” by Cindy Kane, includes mementos from Times journalists. Richard Kranzler

“Soldiers are our boots on the ground, but journalists are our eyes on the ground,” said Cheryl McGinnis, curator of the artist Cindy Kane’s current exhibition in Manhattan’s Flatiron district.

New York Times journalists collaborated with Ms. Kane for “Eyes on the Ground — Journals of War,” which is on display in the Sprint Flatiron Prow Art Space on Fifth Avenue, now through Jan. 2. The show provides an intimate glimpse into life as a war reporter. The opening reception on Nov. 18, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., is your chance to meet the artist, view the exhibit and likely see some familiar bylines.
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Unique class on NYT to be offeredNYU News – 11/11

At Blendle, the iTunes-for-journalism, ‘growth is very rapid’Digiday – 11/11

How newsletters became one of BuzzFeed’s top sources of trafficPoynter – 11/11

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The Wall Street Journal

Growing Up With Godzilla

Watching Godzilla’s physical transformation over the years has always fascinated me. Imagine my joy when I was cruising Instagram and stumbled upon this interactive post by The Wall Street Journal taking a look back at 60 years of the creature’s mayhem. — Sandra Stevenson
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Dell’s New Native Ad on the Times Shows Just How Far Sponsored Content Has Come
Contently – 11/10

Cox Relaunches Newspaper Web Sites
MediaPost – 11/10

Reuters wants to convince young people to embrace TV news on their phones
Quartz – 11/11

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