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A color photograph of a group of 11 older people standing together. One is black, the others are fair-skinned. In the front two men and two women hold up number handshapes, indicating 2015.
Former printers atThe Washington Post maintained friendships after they left. Here they gather at a restaurant in College Park, Maryland. Those pictured include: Front row: Brian Brizendine, Jan DeLap, Janie Golightly, Dean Keefe, Robin Kennedy,…

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Those employees who elected for early retirement accepted a "buy out".

A color photograph of an older Asian man sitting at a desk table. He smiles for the picture and wears a plaid shirt tucked into jeans. On the desk is a large box-shaped computer monitor that displays a page of newspaper ads and a keyboard.
With long lists of prices and items, advertisements for local grocery stores, in this case Magruders, were labor-intensive tasks. In the 1990s, employees of the Ad Department, like Sugyiama, used computer programs to edit and layout these pages.

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Deaf printers used the tools of the workplace to create mock newspaper pages and headlines. One Deaf printer compiled the articles published in The Washington Post over the weeklong protest and created a front page which summarized the events.

A black and white photograph of the Composing Room with a row of linotype machines and operators.
Linotype operators at The Washington Post retrieved edited articles from the newsroom from racks behind their seats. After the text was keyed into the linotype machine, the slugs of lines of text were stacked into a tray known as a galley. The…

A black and white photograph of a line of fair-skinned middle to older aged men as they each sit at their corresponding linotype machines, each of their hands typing onto the keyboard on the machine in front of them. Two of the men are turned toward one another using sign language.
Linotype operators received copy from writers and keyed stories into linotype machines. The machine used molten lead to create slugs, lines of text which would then be arranged into blocks known as galleys, forming columns of newspaper text.

A scanned image of two pages of the newsletter ShopTalk. The article features black and white photographs. The first of a white middle aged woman, the other two of groups of people standing on stage in front of a crowd.
The press department of The Washington Post produced a weekly newsletter for sharing information about the paper and it’s employees. Issues of ShopTalk included announcements about workplace changes, covered events held at work, and shared updates on…

A color photograph of a small group of people sat at a long table, each with their own large, boxed computer monitor and keyboard with a mouse. On the closest end of the table is a fair skinned middle-aged woman; next to her are two fair-skinned middle-aged men; the other end of the table sits another fair-skinned middle-aged woman. All individuals are focused on typing on the computer.
The transition to computing in printing introduced new technologies to the workspaces at The Washington Post.

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