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lOO The Newspaper World. REPORTERS AND SHORTHAND. (Chap. xiv. p. 73.) The following statistics are submitted in proof of the assertion that Pitman's Shorthand is practically in universal use in newspaper offices : The figures quoted below relate to the staffs of 16 London daily newspapers — 10 morning and 6 evening journals — ^and 3 Metro- politan news agencies ; also 38 of the principal daily papers in England and Scotland. The systems used by 607 journalists attached to the stafife of these newspapers are as under : — cd o s •>. Oh H 115 8 a 3 o 3 >%

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03 c • 0) $1 Ch ffi London Newspapers Provincial Newspapers 405 4 3 2 i i London Press Agencies 49 6 i I ^ ^ c C3 O n I 569 18 7 3 3 22 I I I — " Printers' Register;' Feb,, 1890. Of the various shorthand systems among 94 " Gallerymen," 60 write Pitman's system, 12 Taylor's, 7 Gurney's, 3 Lewis's, 1 Lowe's, I Byrom's, i Peachey's, i Everett's, i Bell's, i Mavor's, and I Janes's. — Mr W. Maxwell on '^Parliamentary Reporting'* in " Time:' May, i88g.