The journalist’s art is now one of the computer keyboard and the internet connection, but there was a time when it involved sleepless nights over a manual typewriter followed by time spent reviewing ...

Sitting behind a keyboard from the age of 15, Stewart Macdonald had to take great caution, or risk getting burnt. There are few people left who can say they have worked on a linotype machine, however ...

Jenny Braconnier sits at a hulking grey machine, amid the fumes of molten lead, swiftly typing out the news from northeast France on a strange-looking keyboard that produces lines of metal type.

The last linotype machine newspaper in America is the Saguache Crescent in Saguache, Colorado. It’s a story worth printing, although publisher Dean Combs doesn’t need to. News outlets from around the ...

1886: The New York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use Linotype, a complex but highly efficient typesetting machine that revolutionizes the printing process. Employing a 90-character keyboard, ...