Editing those stories on paper with actual pencils. Calling sources and colleagues on the phone rather than communicating over email. There was even a rule enforcing tough 1980s phone realities: in order to use a phone staff members had to be seated at a desk. And, in a brutally doctrinaire move, 80s music from acts like Cyndi Lauper and Cutting Crew was played in the newsroom in the name of creating an authentic atmosphere.

The project revealed how quickly the old tools of journalism like typewriters and dark room equipment have been buried by the sands of time. Before getting to the task of teaching reporters how to use typewriters, the papers adviser and editor had to find them.