{"id":392,"date":"2003-12-08T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2003-12-08T08:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=392"},"modified":"2003-12-08T08:26:34","modified_gmt":"2003-12-08T08:26:34","slug":"s-f-chron-last-paper-on-earth-to-paginate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/s-f-chron-last-paper-on-earth-to-paginate\/","title":{"rendered":"S.F. Chron last paper on earth to paginate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They were still doing paste-up at the San Francisco Chronicle when I moved to the Bay Area in 1999. Now the paper has finally made the jump to pagination. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?file=\/chronicle\/archive\/2003\/12\/06\/BUG123HG361.DTL&#038;type=business\">Dan Frost writes about the changes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Chronicle this year installed a nearly $8 million digital pagination system, becoming one of the last major daily newspapers to modernize. The old- fashioned composing room with its light boards, wax machines and X-Acto knives will give way to office cubicles, computers and other accoutrements of the 21st century newsroom.<br \/>\n<BR><BR><br \/>\n&#8220;When I came in, they told me, &#8216;Don&#8217;t even bother. When Linotype&#8217;s gone, there won&#8217;t be a job,&#8217; &#8221; said Doug Floyd, 60, of Orinda, who started as an apprentice in 1962 and retired in 2000. &#8220;It lasted all this time.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One amusing memory from the old days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Michael Murphy, 70, of Burlingame, a 38-year veteran, remembered Examiner sportswriter Prescott Sullivan&#8217;s terrible handwriting, and his typing wasn&#8217;t much better. &#8220;He would come back and tell the Linotype operator what he meant, &#8221; Murphy said. &#8220;He&#8217;d correct errors in his copy as he went along.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They were still doing paste-up at the San Francisco Chronicle when I moved to the Bay Area in 1999. Now the paper has finally made the jump to pagination. Dan Frost writes about the changes: The Chronicle this year installed&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/s-f-chron-last-paper-on-earth-to-paginate\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}