I’m very familiar with the layoffs and buyouts our industry is going through — we’re quickly closing in on the 5,000 mark. So I knew it was only a matter of time before it happened: Copy editing and design jobs are being outsourced overseas. For some time I’ve expected one of the larger newspaper companies [...]

I’ve been a little obsessed with the delivery of information lately, in part because of letters, postcards and telegrams my great-grandmother and grandmother saved. The oldest is from 1910; the most recent from the ’70s. In one, a mid-’30s letter, the writer complains that a new delivery system by the U.S. Postal Service means letters [...]