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- <text id=90TT1699>
- <title>
- June 25, 1990: From The Publisher
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- June 25, 1990 Who Gives A Hoot?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- FROM THE PUBLISHER, Page 4
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- <body>
- <p> Magazines, like most businesses, must keep track of the
- march of technology. New kinds of machines are constantly being
- invented, and TIME must determine what and when to buy. In
- making those decisions, we ask not only how the new equipment
- will make journalists' work easier and more efficient but also
- how it will visibly improve the magazine delivered to our
- readers.
- </p>
- <p> Computers have been part of our lives here for more than
- two decades. But the machines represented different generations
- and were not always able, as computer lingo puts it, to talk to
- one another. In 1987 editorial operations director Gerard C.
- Lelievre decided that it was time for all our machines to speak
- the same language. He set out to combine all stages of creating
- an issue of TIME--from words, design and pictures to print--into a seamless electronic process. Lelievre was interested in
- more than scoring a technological breakthrough. "Computers give
- editors more flexibility and more control," he says. "This edge
- provides the reader with a better-looking magazine with more
- late-breaking news."
- </p>
- <p> Lelievre and technology manager Eileen Bradley began
- searching for the machines that could do the job. For 18 months,
- they and editorial systems assistant Alejandro Arce visited
- computer manufacturers from Boston to San Francisco and
- evaluated their wares. Arce's experience as an artist who also
- practiced his trade on a computer was the key to selecting the
- programs capable of achieving Lelievre's vision of TIME's
- technological future. In the end the team decided on a
- combination of Apple Macintosh and Scitex computers. Since
- February, when the new system went into operation, TIME has been
- the only magazine of its size to be entirely produced
- electronically. Until the presses around the world start running
- each week, no paper is required to assemble the pages of TIME
- for printing.
- </p>
- <p> "The beauty of it," says Bradley, "is that the new system
- provides time for creativity in reacting to the news. Editors
- can preview new layouts, pictures or covers in minutes instead
- of hours. Even if we switch cover stories only hours before the
- printing deadline, the magazine still reaches the readers on
- schedule." That is the real payoff on our investment.
- </p>
- <p>-- Louis A. Weil III
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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