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Ep. 279 - A Forgotten News Lab Predicted Journalism's Online Future in 1991
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English - May 27, 2019 03:23 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MB - ★★★★ - 121 ratingsNews Commentary News Politics news Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basement of The Hamilton Spectator back in the early '90s. Jesse talks to its former director, journalist Wayne MacPhail, about what the InfoLab did, and why it shut down shortly after Conrad Black's company bought the newspaper chain.
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