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Offline greyingrey

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Printers & journalists
« on: Friday 19 February 16 11:27 GMT (UK) »
I've read that the term "printer" was often used with the modern meaning of journalist or even newspaper publisher or proprietor. Has anyone any idea of roughly when this stopped being the case please ?

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Re: Printers & journalists
« Reply #1 on: Friday 26 February 16 16:32 GMT (UK) »
Watching with interest, I had never heard this.
Campbell, Dunn, Dickson, Fell, Forest, Norie, Pratt, Somerville, Thompson, Tyler among others