This new technology displaced many skilled workers who were employed as typesetters. In 1889, Hippolyte Marinoni created the second invention that improved the art of making newspapers. Marinoni improved the rotary press to allow a sheet of paper to turn its path and print on both sides of the paper in one trip through the machine. Machines by this time could also cut the long rolls of paper and fold the sheets without human assistance. This again displaced the unskilled laborers employed at the newspapers because this was another reduction in paper handling.
Computerization Has Finally Arrived Today, computers allow authors to aid in their own typesetting.
There is not as much need for proofreaders with spell checkers on our document editors. People are not needed to create wooden or metal letters to place in the press or to crank the handle. There are, however, many highly skilled workers required to design the pages and maintain the sophisticated computers and machinery now required to print quality newspapers. This means that in this stage of automation, the previous skilled craftsmen who would design layouts and perform typesetting duties are no longer needed. Many of these men continue to be employed by newspapers because of their general knowledge of newspapers, however newspaper production is no longer seen as an art or a craft as it had in the past.