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This journalism game would be great if you didn't have to cut short your fun to run home and write the story! After an enjoyable but brief visit to the British Library, I stepped outside to a gloriously sunny afternoon and a Bob Marley tribute band. But alas I couldn't stay and soak up the atmosphere - I had to run to the newsroom!
Here's the result...
The British Library is currently holding a free exhibition celebrating 100 years of the British Newspaper.
‘Front Page’, created in partnership with the Newspaper Publishers Association, began on 25 May and runs until 8 October, displaying captivating headlines from 1906 to 2006.
“Friends of ours came to London two years ago and told us to come to the British Library”, said John Antonsen, on holiday with his family from Canada, “but this is totally different from what we expected. The early 20th century is fascinating”.
“I like the stuff about the Titanic, they said no one died, it makes you think about today’s headlines - are they true?”, contemplated his daughter, Britta, referring to the Daily Mirror’s: ‘Titanic wireless signal brings vessels to scene: Everyone Safe’, dated 16 April 1912.
Headlines ranged from the patriotic and formal ‘War Declared by Britain and France’ (Daily Herald, 4 September 1939), to the accusing ‘So where are they, Mr. Blair? Not one illegal warhead. Not one drum of chemicals’ (Independent on Sunday, 20 April 2003), to the fun ‘Mr and Mrs Becks’ (The Sun, 6 July 1999).
“It’s fascinating. Everything triggers a memory. I was born in 1942 and this really brings it all back”, said Suzannah Stack, a guest gazing at the headline ‘Hindenburg Blows Up: 100 Dead’, featured by the Daily Mail on May 7 1937. “This was before my time though”.
Agnes Cattoretti, an Italian journalist said, “I work in magazines, so it’s interesting to see the kind of work involved in newspapers.
“It’s fun for kids too. He really enjoyed the newsroom”, she added, showing off the page created 8 year old Marco Giacobbe, using the interactive virtual news office. Visitors can use the computer terminals to experience the fast pace of daily print journalism.
Here's the result...
The British Library is currently holding a free exhibition celebrating 100 years of the British Newspaper.
‘Front Page’, created in partnership with the Newspaper Publishers Association, began on 25 May and runs until 8 October, displaying captivating headlines from 1906 to 2006.
“Friends of ours came to London two years ago and told us to come to the British Library”, said John Antonsen, on holiday with his family from Canada, “but this is totally different from what we expected. The early 20th century is fascinating”.
“I like the stuff about the Titanic, they said no one died, it makes you think about today’s headlines - are they true?”, contemplated his daughter, Britta, referring to the Daily Mirror’s: ‘Titanic wireless signal brings vessels to scene: Everyone Safe’, dated 16 April 1912.
Headlines ranged from the patriotic and formal ‘War Declared by Britain and France’ (Daily Herald, 4 September 1939), to the accusing ‘So where are they, Mr. Blair? Not one illegal warhead. Not one drum of chemicals’ (Independent on Sunday, 20 April 2003), to the fun ‘Mr and Mrs Becks’ (The Sun, 6 July 1999).
“It’s fascinating. Everything triggers a memory. I was born in 1942 and this really brings it all back”, said Suzannah Stack, a guest gazing at the headline ‘Hindenburg Blows Up: 100 Dead’, featured by the Daily Mail on May 7 1937. “This was before my time though”.
Agnes Cattoretti, an Italian journalist said, “I work in magazines, so it’s interesting to see the kind of work involved in newspapers.
“It’s fun for kids too. He really enjoyed the newsroom”, she added, showing off the page created 8 year old Marco Giacobbe, using the interactive virtual news office. Visitors can use the computer terminals to experience the fast pace of daily print journalism.
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