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Newsroom technology, Part 1

Description: Newsroom of South Middlesex News. VDTs (video display terminals) outnumber electric typewriters. Wire machines. Paste-up artists crop photos with exacto knife, lay out pages. Several people smoke as they work. Computer punch tape in ribbons on floor. Man working at phototypesetting machine. reel 1 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978

Newsroom technology, Part 2

Description: Editor Bob Moore at South Middlesex News shows how copy is typed, formatted and corrected on VDT monitor, new electronic equipment to the newsroom. Close-up of hands on computer keyboard. He inserts numerical codes for type size, headline size, column width. “Makes for better typing…no more proofreaders…reporters love it…it lifts them psychologically.” Paper has been largely eliminated from the newsroom. Composing room jobs reduced and people retrained. Cost savings put toward buying the technology and enhancing the editorial staff. Cartoonist working in pen and ink; his drawings posted on the wall. reel 2 of 2
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/11/1978

Newt Gingrich

Description: House minority whip Rep. Newt Gingrich speaks at Mass. Republican Party fundraiser. He sells his book and hopes to stir the conservative movement with aggressive tactics.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/27/1989

Newton North High School

Description: School buses and wagons lined up outside Newton North High School. New brick exterior of school.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/01/1979

Newton mayoral candidate

Description: Alderman Richard McGrath runs for mayor of Newton against longtime incumbent Ted Mann.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/26/1989

Nicholas Nixon's AIDS portraits

Description: Photographer Nicholas Nixon made monthly portraits of people with AIDS, including Robert Sappenfield, showing deterioration from the disease.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/03/1989

Nighttime expressway traffic

Description: Nighttime expressway traffic shots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/06/1982

Ninth amendment

Description: Meaning of the ninth amendment to the Constitution ("right to privacy"). POS and Paul Garrity.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/18/1987

No campus activism

Description: Jan von Mehren reports on Henry Hampton's address to students at Boston University. Von Mehren notes that Hampton talked about the importance of campus activism and civil rights. Von Mehren's report includes footage of Hampton speaking to the student audience. Hampton encourage students to make demands on the university administration. Pearl Shelton (community activist) addresses the students from the audience. She encourages them to become involved in the struggle for change in society. Von Mehren's report also includes footage of Rosa Moreno (Boston University law student) and Derek Davis (Boston University law student) talking about the lack of activism on college campuses. Von Mehren discusses the role of campus activism in the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Von Mehren's report includes footage from Eyes on the Prize of Diane Nash (civil rights activist). This edition of the Ten O'Clock News also included the following item: K.C. Jones of the Boston Celtics reacts to racist remarks made by Jimmy "the Greek" Snyder on national television Reactions to comments by Jimmy "the Greek"
1:00:06: Visual: Black and white footage of the Civil Rights Movement from Eyes on the Prize. African American students face off with white police officers during the civil rights movement. African American student demonstrators are marching on a street. Shot of an FBI poster seeking information on the murder of three civil rights activists. Shots of students being escorted into police vehicles; of police using fire hoses on civil rights activists in Birmingham, Alabama. Shots of civil rights activists at city hall in Nashville, Tennessee; of Diane Nash (civil rights activist) standing with Ben West (Mayor of Nashville). Footage of Nash saying that she asked West if he believed that discrimination was wrong. Footage of West saying that he told Nash that discrimination was morally wrong. Shot of Nash applauding as she faces West. Jan von Mehren talks about how students were on the front lines of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Von Mehren notes that some civil rights activists lost their lives; that some were jailed. Von Mehren talks about the participation of college student Diane Nash in the civil rights movement. Von Mehren says that today's college students have only vague memories of the civil rights movement. Von Mehren reports that Henry Hampton (civil rights activist and filmmaker) addressed a group of high school and college students today at Boston University. V: Shots of students listening to Hampton speak; of Hampton addressing the students. Footage of a white female student asking Hampton how Boston University can increase the enrollment of minority students. Hampton says that students need to be persistent in making demands on the administration. Von Mehren stands at the back of the auditorium where Hampton is speaking. Von Mehren says that the civil rights activists from the 1960s are trying to convince the younger generation to become active. V: Footage of Pearl Shelton (community activist) standing in the audience. She asks how many students are members of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) or the Urban League. Shelton says that students need to give something back to society. Footage of Shelton being interviewed by von Mehren. Shelton says that Martin Luther King (civil rights leader) would be disappointed in the lack of activity in the current movement for civil rights. Footage of Rosa Moreno (Boston University law student) saying that there is apathy among students today; that some students do not know how to become involved; that civil rights organizations need to distribute information to students. Footage of Derek Davis (Boston University law student) saying that students have not mobilized behind one cause or political candidate; that many students are disillusioned or skeptical; that some students are interested in fighting for change. Shots of Hampton addressing the crowd; of students in the crowd listening to Hampton. Von Mehren says that today's students have not united behind one cause; that many are trying to make a difference. V: Footage of Hampton saying that today's students need to dream like King did. Shot of the audience applauding.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/18/1988

No faith in evacuation plan

Description: Exeter, NH couple explains why they have no faith in proposed Seabrook emergency evacuation plan. Phillips Exeter Academy. Private school. Road in Exeter town center.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/09/1989