The Machine in the Corner of the Newsroom
A Glimpse into a Small-Town Newspaper’s Past
5 min readJun 16, 2019
An aroma akin to that of melted crayons greeted me every day, Monday through Friday, for two years in the early 1990s. During that time, I worked at a twice-weekly newspaper as a typesetter, my first full-time job.
I got the feeling computers had been a recent addition to that small…