Several people have mentioned to me how weird those robotic cameras look on some TV news shows. You may have seen them-cameras that are aimed at the newscasters, but that are operated via electronic ...

Photograph: Robin Christian for the Guardian AFW Spencer was a composing room operative in 1914. By 1918 he had enlisted, gone to war and been killed. Other composing room employees listed left jobs ...

My newspaper career spans more than 45 years of innovation, culminating in the nearly total computerization of the process of writing, composing and printing what you read on this page. But I have ...