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Written by Jeff Jarvis on 2025-01-20 at 21:04

In the 19th century, newspapers indeed hired stenographers to record and publish speeches. Then they hired reporters to report. That was the birth of journalism. This is its death. #BrokenTimes.

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Written by Leah Price on 2025-01-20 at 21:13

@jeffjarvis It’s not stenography so much as what we lit crits call free indirect discourse: grammatically in the third person, substantively in the first.

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Written by Jeff Jarvis on 2025-01-20 at 21:22

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Yes. Well-put and thank you.

I have stenography on my mind as I write my cultural history of the Linotype. I am ever-more enchanted by James. O. Clephane, the stenographer who was Mergenthaler's muse. Thus I'm digging into the trade's role in newspapers of the time. (Recently I learned that "phonographer" was a synonym for "stenographer" and thus the root of "phonograph" ... and Clephane was also a director of what became CBS Records.) I could go on....

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