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Japanese Reporters Created Pen-And-Ink Newspapers After Earthqake

Here's a great story about the continuing need for newspapers. After the earthquake/tsunami hit Japan and knocked out all power in the city of Ishinomaki, reporters on the city's daily newspaper, Ishinomaki Hibi Shimbun "used flashlights and marker pens to write their stories on poster-size paper and posted the 'newspapers' at the entrances of relief centers around the city," for six days.

That's according to the newsletter for Washington D.C.'s Newseum, which "has acquired seven of the originals for its permanent collection of historic newspapers."

Read the whole story at Newseum News »

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