I almost forgot that the old fashioned teletypes used ribbons like the old typewriters on which stories were written and I had to change the ribons as well. Quite a trick. Sometimes the holes would be worn in those ribbons but the letter keys would still leave an impression on the newsprint we loaded for teletype paper.

They went to laser-powered teletypes in which ythere were no ribbons just a swishing sound which I didn't like. I much preferred the clatter of those old teletype and typewriter keys.

Only the rewrite editors and the slot man at the copy desk ahd typewriters back then.
The reporter who could not get to the newspaper would phone in the story to the rewrite guy who would hammer away and pound out some sort of story about what had happened then away it would go to the backshop after it was "slugged" or labeled with key words--for the linotype guy. If my cousin was the linotype guy, he would further edit it and refine it but he was usually stuck setting type of the stock market & financials because he was the only guy oin the backshop besides my grandfather who could work with all of the numbers.

Newspaper publishers then were notoriously greedy folks and pay for the editorial staff was extremely low and I think it was the low pay that cause reporters and editors to accept the occasional gratuity and PR pieces suddenly became news stories. I didn't think it was right or honest so i didn't take the freebies to tell the lies but most of the guys were treated so badly and underpaid that nobody gave a damn so I tried to not to care too much either. There was no job like it in the world.I miss it to this day but things are not the same.