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[WATCH] Free Paper, a New Yorker Fictional Short About Two Newspaper Vendors Having an Existential Crisis

2024-08-20T12:00:00-04:00

Is everyone ignoring them... or are they ghosts?

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[VIDEO] Short Profile Video of an AM New York Newspaper Distributor in the Subway

2021-09-01T16:00:00-04:00

Columbia journalism grad student Daniel A. Nelson recently created this short profile of a Andre Thomas, a Brooklyn man who passes out copies of AM New York in the subway.

Andre Thomas, 33, was born in Grenada and lives in Brooklyn, New York. He gets up every weekday and hands out newspapers in the subway at 6:30 a.m.

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[WATCH] Vintage Film From 1978 Documents The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times

2021-04-22T16:00:00-04:00

This vintage film from filmmakers Carl Schlesinger and David Loeb Weis documents the last day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times, and older printing technology that dates back to 1884. The New York Times used Hot Metal Typesetting up until 1978, when newer technologies allowed faster and cheaper methods of printing newspapers.

This film shows the entire newspaper production process from hot-metal typesetting to creating stereo moulds to high-speed press operation. At the end of the film, the new typesetting and photographic production process is shown in contrast to the old ways.

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[WATCH] Meet the New York Times Machinists Who Keep the Printing Presses Running

2020-09-04T16:00:00-04:00

In this fantastic mini-profile from our friends at Motherboard, meet the three veteran machinists who have kept the New York Times Printing Plant operational for the past several decades.

As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking toward the margins of tech to find the people keeping older machines alive and running. In the first episode of State of Repair, we visited the New York Times printing plant to meet Greg Zerafa, Jerry Greaney, and Chris Bedetto, who are part of a dying breed of machinists that keeps the newspaper's eight three-story printing presses humming and spitting out hundreds of thousands of newspapers every single day.

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[WATCH] Reading of a 1933 Vintage Newspaper Article on Inwood: "A Reporter at Large"

2020-04-15T16:00:00-04:00

Cole Thompson runs a fantastic local blog titled My Inwood which is, you guessed it, all about Manhattan's Inwood Neighborhood. In this recent video, Thompson reads an article from 1933 in which a reporter visits the isolated neighborhood and reports back to their readers.

In 1933 writer Morris Markey visited Inwood for the "A Reporter at Large" column in the New Yorker. This narration of Markey's 1933 piece is accompanied by historic photos of the places and people described by the writer. While Markey takes a few artistic liberties, most of what he describes is accurate. The Inwood region is located on the northern end of of the island of Manhattan.

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[WATCH] Vintage Film From 1978 Documents The Last Day of Hot Metal Typesetting at the New York Times

2020-04-08T16:00:00-04:00

This film shows the entire newspaper production process from hot-metal typesetting to creating stereo moulds to high-speed press operation. At the end of the film, the new typesetting and photographic production process is shown in contrast to the old ways.

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This Animated Mini-Documentary Tells the Incredible Story of 19th Century New York Journalist Nellie Bly

2019-06-03T15:30:00-04:00

“In my time, women usually had their life stories written for them. But I didn’t like the story I was given, so I wrote a new one.”

That’s Nellie Bly, the nom de plume of Elizabeth Cochrane. The story she wrote—in a newspaper in 1887, and, figuratively, of her life—would change the course of journalism in America.

A new short film from Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting brings Bly’s intrepid spirit to life. Nellie Bly Makes the News is an inventive and wildly entertaining account of the late reporter’s pioneering work in investigative journalism. The film’s director, Penny Lane, uses animation and a mix of documentary-style and reenacted interviews—drawn from primary sources, including Bly’s own writing and published interviews—to tell the story of a dynamic woman whose reportage is still being emulated today.

Check out the video's accompanying article or more on the incredible story of 19th century New York journalist Nellie Bly.

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[VIDEO] Here's How Alexander Hamilton's Sex Scandal Launched the New York Post

2019-02-16T15:30:00-05:00

A major New York City news organization just launched an interesting video series on YouTube called Crazy Interesting Posts, and in this inaugural episode, watch as they explain how Alexander Hamilton's sex scandal in 1797 helped launch their newspaper, the New York Post.

In the late 1700's Alexander Hamilton was part of America's 1st great tabloid-worthy sex scandal and it led to the launch of America's oldest continuous daily newspaper - the New York Post. In this episode of "Crazy Interesting Posts", we remember what happened.

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Check Out These Centuries-Old, Vintage New York City Rental Advertisements

2018-02-18T17:30:00-05:00

Real estate search website RENTCafé recently searched through some old newspaper records on the Library of Congress Digital Archives and found some great vintage classified ads for New York apartments and homes.

This handsome house featuring an arbor of fine grapes - in New York City!

This Staten Island dwelling house with a full bakery in the basement

This high-end New York apartment at the turn of the century (servants' rooms included)

This record-crushing apartment building

Check out the accompanying article for more some commentary, and more vintage ads from other cities.

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Check Out This Heatmap of New York Times Crossword Grids by Day of Week

2017-11-16T16:30:00-05:00

Redditor UniverseCity recently created this great heatmap showing the New York Times crossword puzzle layout per week. Claiming to work for the paper, the creator says s/he thought:

[…] it'd be fun to see if I could find patterns within all historic puzzles. Thought it was interesting to see the similarities between Thursday and Saturday (themed puzzles), as well as the tendency for diagonal lines to slant right.

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