Old-time reporters still smell the ink and listen for the clank of linotype and typewriters. Modern journalists are accustomed to the quiet of computers, the changed workrooms, the blending of graphics and print. It behooves the older generation to add computer skills to their wealth of experience, in order to be effective mentors to the new generation.
Predictor: Woodbury, Marsha
Prediction, in context:The June 1994 issue of The Network Observer, an online newsletter, carries an article titled “The Net Gives New Life to Journalism,” by Marsha Woodbury, director at large for Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility and a doctoral student at the College of Education at the University of Illinois. She writes: ”Old-time reporters still smell the ink and listen for the clank of linotype and typewriters. Modern journalists are accustomed to the quiet of computers, the changed workrooms, the blending of graphics and print. It behooves the older generation to add computer skills to their wealth of experience, in order to be effective mentors to the new generation.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: Journalism/Media
Name of publication: The Network Observer
Title, headline, chapter name: The Net Gives New Life to Journalism
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/people/pagre/tno/june-1994.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne