Will Weissert from AP brings a heartwarming story from Cuba.
The Chinese community has a free-ish newspaper, which while government controlled is privately run. Shine China publishes every few months, with a print run of less than a thousand copies. The paper is hand set, hand printed and the operator is the only one capable of setting the machine - it's 110 years old and has a single lead piece for each Chinese character.
It's 60 centavos, which is approximately 0 Euros, and the owner is having a hard time finding a successor to teach print setting to. Still, for Cuba, this is considered a company enjoying special liberties, and perhaps a signpost to reform.
I would love to get my hands on an issue.
I won't even comment how Weissert says here that 300 words can take five hours to lay out while Joyce Choi of New America Media says it's 20 minutes for 150 words in another article. She also says the paper is biweekly in her 2007 story.
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