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Pushing Photos Through Wires

The technology used to distribute photos through news wire services inspired a whole bunch of innovations with use cases beyond newspapers. Like television.

Nov 19, 2021

News In Small Bytes

Newspapers said they wanted to protect the print product, but they were raring to go when it came to experimental online news approaches in the early '80s.

Aug 11, 2020

They Stopped (Sorta)

The Associated Press finally allows the singular “they” in some limited instances—a big move in the world of copy-editing.

Mar 27, 2017

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