Australian Newsagency Blog

In a wonderful commentary on change, Scott Walker, associate editor at The Birmingham News has embraced new technology in a package which is a homage to newspaper distribution in the US with this digital newspaper box.

His brilliant invention, made from an old newspaper honour box, a Mac Mini and a flat screen monitor, is a digital newsstand that grabs news pages from the internet to display them where print newspapers used to be.

As Walker says at his blog explaining the project:

Sure, I could get the news on my desktop computer or iPhone (yeah, I wish!), but as a newspaper editor, I’ve got a soft spot for tradition.

Walker goes into considerable detail on how he made the box.

Walker’s digital newspaper box is very cool.