{"id":882,"date":"2019-06-03T14:29:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T18:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/?p=882"},"modified":"2019-06-13T17:30:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T21:30:14","slug":"final-step-printing-at-daily-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/2019\/06\/final-step-printing-at-daily-graphic\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final Step: Printing at the ‘Graphic’"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Sam Klein<\/p>\n

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The printing press at the Daily Graphic, Ghana’s primary newspaper.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ghana\u2019s state-owned and largest publication, the \u201cDaily Graphic,\u201d prints daily from their Accra office. The printers work nearly round-the-clock, keeping up with the four daily prints \u2014 including one that starts daily at 8 p.m. in order to make the 1:20 a.m. departure for Kumasi, the capital of Ghana\u2019s Ashanti region. <\/span><\/p>\n

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A scale for weighing newspapers sits by rolls of paper for printing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Graphic prints 100,000 papers daily, with a total readership of 1.5 million, according to their Accra bureau news editor. When the final proofs go to print, the printing staff gives a glance over the headlines, ensuring that there are no glaring mistakes. If problems arise, the paper is sent back for corrections.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Enormous vats of CMYK ink are used to print the newspapers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Funding for operations at the Graphic comes from the government, and it employs reporters stationed across the country. But the printing office is each day\u2019s paper\u2019s last stop \u2014 and the last line of defense for mistakes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Stacks of newspapers sit by the printing press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Sam Klein   Ghana\u2019s state-owned and largest publication, the \u201cDaily Graphic,\u201d prints daily from their Accra office. The printers work nearly round-the-clock, keeping up with the four daily prints \u2014 including one that starts daily at 8 p.m. in order to make the 1:20 a.m. departure for Kumasi, the capital of Ghana\u2019s Ashanti region. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,103,43,102],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":891,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882\/revisions\/891"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nyujournalismprojects.org\/africadispatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}