EARLY EDITION: A news Luddite meets the future

Take a step behind the scenes as we highlight some memorable moments from the Ottawa Citizen’s storied past. Today, Noel Taylor remembers the day the newspaper confronted modernity.
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Back in 1973, after nearly 20 years in the newspaper business, my working life changed dramatically. Traumatically, even. That year, over the course of a weekend, the Citizen became the first daily of its size in North America to abandon hot lead for paste-up.
You may not know quite what that