John R. Thistlethwaite Jr. (July 16, 1918 – April 6, 1996) was an American journalist who founded the Daily World of Opelousas, Louisiana on December 24, 1939, the first American small town daily newspaper to use offset and photo-offset printing. Ducote “Duke” Andrepont was the newspaper's cofounder.
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| - John R. Thistlethwaite Jr. (July 16, 1918 – April 6, 1996) was an American journalist who founded the Daily World of Opelousas, Louisiana on December 24, 1939, the first American small town daily newspaper to use offset and photo-offset printing. Ducote “Duke” Andrepont was the newspaper's cofounder. (en)
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| - John Richmond Thistlethwaite Jr. (en)
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- B. A. Tulane University, 1939 (en)
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| - John R. Thistlethwaite Jr. (July 16, 1918 – April 6, 1996) was an American journalist who founded the Daily World of Opelousas, Louisiana on December 24, 1939, the first American small town daily newspaper to use offset and photo-offset printing. Ducote “Duke” Andrepont was the newspaper's cofounder. Photo-offset is a method of offset printing using photomechanical plates. A photographic image is first taken of a "dummy" version of a newspaper, and the image is then transferred to chemically treated plates. The plates transfer the image to a rubber "blanket" which is wrapped around a cylinder of a printing press which then contacts paper to print the newspaper. The first edition of the World was a tabloid style newspaper of thirty-eight pages, and used two colors on its front page. As a tabloid, it had a local focus, a smaller circulation, and its pages were smaller in size than a traditional broadsheet newspaper. As recognition of its contribution to journalism through the groundbreaking use of photo-offset printing in a daily newspaper, a copy of the first edition of the Daily World resides in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. Offset printing and photo-offset printing remain the primary means of printing newspapers today. (en)
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