Documents

During the course of researching Riptide, a number of the people we interviewed gave us important documents from their files and asked us to include them with their interviews. Those documents are here and we view this as a placeholder for what could become a much larger and important collection of documents and artifacts about the collision of journalism and digital media. If you have documents or other digital artifacts you would like to contribute, or suggestions for how to build out this archive, please send us feedback.

Volume 2 Documents

A January 1986 memo from John Geddes to his bosses at The Wall Street Journal urging that the paper’s news department create its own computer department.

A July 1985 memo from Walt Mossberg to his colleagues at the WSJ about the installation of a new electronic publishing system

A link to a 1974 video of Arthur C. Clarke with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Saying that by 2001 Every Household Will Have a Computer and Be Connected Worldwide (from YouTube)

A link to a May 1999 article in The American Editor About Intel’s Andy Grove’s Ominous Speech to an American Society of Newspaper Editors Meeting

A link to a November 1995 Josh Quittner article in Hot Wired on Journalism’s Digital Future

A May 1994 speech by Denise Caruso at a Nieman Foundation Journalism & Technology Conference

A May 1995 transcript of a panel discussion between Esther Dyson and Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. at a Nieman Foundation for Journalism Conference.

A spring 1994 article by Katherine Fulton in Nieman Reports on “A New Agenda for Journalism”

An Oct 1999 photo from Kara Swisher of the Napkin Offer to the Justice League of America

Volume 1 Documents

1980 link to a set of screenshots (via Richard Gingras) of the initial teletext service created at KCET (PBS) in Los Angeles