Fergus Cassidy

Under the headline ‘Newspapers of the Future’ a conference report from the Institute of Journalists contained the following remarks of the Institute’s president and editor of the Daily Chronicle, Robert Donald:

“News would be collected by wireless telephones, and the reporter would always have a portable telephone with him with which he could communicate with his paper without the trouble of going to an office or writing a message.

“…People might become too lazy to read, and news would be laid to the house like gas and water.
Occupiers would listen to the news of the day read to them while sitting in the garden, and have their daily newspaper printed in column form by a printing machine in the hall”.

I wonder how that vision was greeted by the readers of the Irish Times when it was published – in August 1913!

(source: Irish Times facsimile)

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