While New York newspapers struggle with assorted unions for the right to automate in bits and pieces, a new British daily went into operation last week with ultramodern, automatic, labor-and-time-saving techniques in every production area. Started by Lord Thomson of Fleet, 71, who owns 125 newspapers and 105 magazines in Britain, Ireland, Canada, the U.S. and Africa, the Evening Post of Reading makes use of equipment that has been on the market for a few years: computerized type-fitting, phototypesetting and offset printing. But never before has it all been assembled in one newspaper...
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