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This article revisits the early twentieth century as an overlooked period of media mixing and technological convergence in newspapers. Comparing a short-lived audiovisual form of journalism—the Radio Photologues of the Chicago Daily News—with contemporary audio slideshows produced by online newspapers, it argues that newspapers have long been meeting grounds for experimental combinations of existing and emerging media. It calls for a broader historical perspective in discussions of convergence in digital journalism by drawing attention to the complex intermingling of media forms, sensory engagements, and storytelling conventions that have appeared in newspapers in times of technological transition. Additionally, it highlights the utility of textual analysis in analyzing these ephemeral and hybrid media artifacts in journalism.