Compositors and artists use computer work stations to incorporate copy, graphics and pictures. As for those stories and photos, well, these days, computers are critical to the creation and delivery of both of those newspaper staples. In The Union Leader newsroom, stories like this one are written on Dell word processors. In outlying towns, correspondents work on personal computers and file their stories via telephone modem. In the field be it the State House, New Hampshire International Speedway or Fenway Park writers like John Toole, Kevin Provencher and Kevin Gray employ portable laptop computers that also enable them to deliver the goods via phone line.
Pictures come over the phone, too.
We used to take negatives, slip them into a glassine envelope and place them in a file cabinet. That's not new, but what we do with them in-house is different now. David Brock four or five months down the line, an image can be called up and sent within seconds. We are also taking digital images. Staff photographer Bob LaPree now patrols the state with a Nikon D-1.