Meet the Machinists Who Keep the New York Times Running

(Producer - Vice Media)

As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, I started looking toward the margins of tech to find the people keeping older machines alive and running.

I visited the New York Times printing plant to meet Greg Zerafa, Jerry Greaney, and Chris Bedetto, who are part of a dying breed of machinists that keeps the newspaper's eight three-story printing presses humming and spitting out hundreds of thousands of newspapers every single day.

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