Technology & history

Pickets’ memory lane is just a walk up the creek

Jul 09, 2021 at 11:40 am by admin

Who’d have thought it – that the once-polluted Milton creek I recall, makes a sailing mag’s best boating destinations. With a paper mill at one end and one.... Read More

Herald’s production story from half-a-century ago

Jun 29, 2021 at 11:40 am by admin

A film retrieved from 1970 tells the production story of the Sydney Morning Herald and its sister newspapers. From the individual efforts of reporters and graphic designers,.... Read More

Newspaper saviour Slover’s family finally out of print

Jun 18, 2021 at 12:08 pm by admin

After 116 years – the last 13 spent trying to exit publishing – the group founded by US newspaper reviver Sam Slover is finally out of the businesss. Landmark Com.... Read More

NZTV focusses on print museum’s plight

May 10, 2021 at 12:59 pm by admin

A report on New Zealand’s TV1 focusses the plight of the country’s largest printing museum. Check the link for the coverage of a range of equipment – includ.... Read More

Australia’s ‘grandmother’ of newsmedia has quite something to celebrate

Apr 20, 2021 at 12:17 pm by admin

Not Sydney’s first newspaper but now its – and Australia’s – oldest, the Sydney Morning Herald turned 190 this week. Particularly, the paper celebrate.... Read More