As you have read through today’s newspaper, you have undoubtedly notice that our page arrangement has changed.
Obituaries, Lifestyles, North Dakota and Markets are all now on different pages than you are used to seeing. For the most part, the content is the same. It’s just in a different place.
We have made these changes for a number of reasons.
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The newspaper industry, perhaps more than any other, must keep up with technology in order to stay relevant.
In the early 1900s, we didn’t run any photos and had hundreds of small stories in tiny type jam-packed onto our front page. Photos were commonplace by the mid-20th century but putting a newspaper together was still a tedious process of typewriters and typesetting. By the turn of the century, computer programs had changed the way the industry worked as well as the way newspapers presented themselves.
Think about this: The day after Theodore Roosevelt died in 1919, The Press had a 200-word story that it gave below-the-fold treatment. There was no photo, illustration or anything. Not even an obituary.
Today, that story would have been standing alone on our front page with many of you rushing to our website long before the newspaper arrived at your home the next morning. Some of you would have been directed to the story on our website via an email or text message alert.
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Dustin Monke 