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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Telegraph People: Behind the scenes in the heyday of a city's multi-edition evening newspaper

Telegraph People: Behind the scenes in the heyday of a city's multi-edition evening newspaper

Lamb, John

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ISBN10: 1908837128
ISBN13: 9781908837127
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Sep 6 2019
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Telegraph People celebrates the characters who produced a multi-edition evening newspaper in the large industrial Midlands city of Coventry across two decades.

It reveals what went on behind the façade of the Coventry Evening Telegraph offices in Corporation Street. Read about the journalists who put this newspaper together - the dramas, the crises and the fun.
This was before the digital revolution and...

- Stories had to be by filed by phone
- Reporters hammered out their words on typewriters
- Breaking news from around the globe clattered into the office on tele-printers
- The news was set in hot metal
- Pages were torn up hourly to accommodate breaking news and great pictures
- Copies were printed in their tens of thousands on giant, thundering presses
- Vans roared all over the city and neighbouring towns, dropping off copies, including the Saturday night PINK sports edition
- Tens of thousands of newspapers were delivered direct to homes
These people arguably had the best job ever - journalism. Among them was a young man who embarked on an unlikely career in newspapers.

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