THE FLINT JOURNAL / JANE HALE

Sandy Rich, ad services supervisor and former Pre-Press supervisor, pastes up obituaries on deadline in the morning. The metal ruler (called a pica pole or line gauge), razor knife and cut-and-paste method of composing pages by hand are nearing extinction at The Journal; only the obituary and classified ads pages are still pieced together this way, and only a few people still work in the department, which employed dozens in decades past.