I am a 1953 alumnus of Trinity College. I workeed 3 years as a reporter for the Chronicle. After graduatiuon I worked for 2 years as a reporter for the Casper Morning Star, Casper, WY.. Subsequently, I went to law school at the Univesrity of Colorado, and worked 3 summers as a political reporter for the Wyoming State Tribune, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
I graduated in 1959 and practiced law in Cheyenne, Wyoming for 40 years. During that period I served as United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming and subsequently served 4 years as Chair of the Wyoming Democratic Party. I am a Past President of the National Association of Former US Attorneys, and in those various positions have had numerous contacts with the press
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I think the newsroom of the future must have access to all media and should be prepared to provide immediate coverage for all newsworthy events, through the internet to subscribers. I think the press need to adopt the practice of the stock market which provides real time coverage of the market and of events affecting it.. This can be done in each community with readers relying on their computer to receive current event information.
costs would be met through subscriptions charges much like an URL provider. The newsrooms would involve a continuous sequence of news stories which could be .cataloged and indexed through an editor reader that would organize the stories every 24 hours into a format establishing the most significant envent sof the day.; The reader could continuous;y pull up stories and at the end of the day read a summary in a newspaper format.. On the daily summary advertising could be sold--but the printing would be eliminated and each subscriber would print the paper on his own printer,
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