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Stop the presses: Telegram printing staff brace for closure of N.L.'s last press

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Posted this 2024-08-17 6:21 AM NDT

Last paper copy of Telegram expected to print Friday evening

CBC NewsMalone Mullin

Nathan Roberts, a unionized worker at the SaltWire printing press in St. John's, will make what might be the last-ever paper edition of The Telegram next week. (Peter Cowan/CBC)

It's a deadline journalists and printing press staff in Newfoundland and Labrador are dreading: the final paper edition of The Telegram, St. John's largest newspaper.

After Aug. 23, a printers' union representative tells CBC News, the presses will stop for good, ending an era that spanned nearly 150 years.

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