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I am absolutely slammed this week with work, so I don’t have time to publish a blog every working day, as I usually do (though I do have time to Tweet<\/a>).<\/p>\n

But this is too good just<\/em> to Tweet: a group of college journalists have published an issue of their campus newspaper without using any digital technology<\/a>. Hilarity ensued.<\/p>\n

I never had to use a typewriter in a newsroom, but I did<\/em> have to use hot waxers, typesetting machines, exacto-knives and dark rooms (and I still have a couple of t-shirts with stains from photo development chemicals to prove it).<\/p>\n

Are those skills wasted? Not at all. In fact, I now proudly note my pre-digital experience on my CV, because when I didn’t do so, I was told the reason I didn’t get a communications specialist job in East Timor a few years ago – which I very much wanted – was because the UNICEF staff person doing the hiring felt that I wouldn’t know how to do my job without the latest and greatest digital tools.<\/p>\n

But this comment really got to me in this article about the college students using primitive news room technology<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Regardless of the stress or the obscene amount of paper that\u2019s accumulated on the newsroom floor, I won\u2019t forget what this project has given us. We\u2019ve formed this sort of newsroom camaraderie that I hadn\u2019t experienced before, and it means everything.<\/em><\/p>\n

No question: we’re losing that kind of camaraderie of the work place. Everyone is work shifting (the term telecommuting<\/em> is so pass\u00e9<\/em>), doing their work from home, from a coffee shop – anywhere but next<\/em> to a co-worker. And that’s a loss. That’s not an improvement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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