A worker adjusts letters on a plaque in the French printing company's workshop of the 'Aisne Democrat' in Vervins. The broadsheet was founded in 1906 and it is the last European weekly paper printed with lead, exactly in the same manner as in the beginning of 20 century. Photos: AFP
Jenny Braconnier sits at a hulking grey machine, amid the fumes of molten lead, swiftly typing out the news from northeast France on a strange-looking keyboard that produces lines of metal type.
Beside her is a smartphone, one of the few nods to modernity in the deliberately retro newsroom of Le Democrate de l’Aisne.
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