Ep. 279 - A Forgotten News Lab Predicted Journalism's Online Future in 1991

Published: May 27, 2019, 3:23 a.m.

InfoLab imagined newspapers' transition from print to digital, creating multimedia digital news in the basement of The Hamilton Spectator\xa0back in the early '90s. Jesse talks to its former director, journalist Wayne MacPhail, about what the InfoLab did, and why it shut down shortly after Conrad Black's company bought the newspaper chain.\xa0

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