Examines the production of a history of newsworkers from a labor-process theoretical perspective, demonstrating how the history of journalism may be reconstructed as the history of the class experience of newsroom workers. Harry Braverman's (1974) deskilling thesis is utilized to analyze how technological devices have transformed skill requirements for newsroom workers, arguing that it ignores the impact of industrialization & the increasing importance of reporters on the decline of print journalism. Because the degree of deskilling among newsroom workers & blue-collar workers is incomparable, Michael Burawoy's (1979) analysis of the ideological-cultural dimension of skill, ie, his investigation of the organization of consent in the workplace, is used to explore the translation of social relations endemic to the labor process into work practices. It is concluded that a history of newsworkers must deemphasize descriptions of media celebrities & institutions while drawing attention to changes in the work experiences of relatively anonymous workers. 54 References. J. W. Parker