The Cuban Communist party launched its official newspaper Granma in 1965. Karla Zabludovsky visited its newsroom to meet a woman who has been there since the very beginning.
The living history of Granma can be found quietly lingering on the newsroom’s fifth floor, under the watchful eye of the paper’s archivist, Ana Ferrer.
Cuban Ana Ferrer Alvarez works at her desk in the newsroom archive of Granma Newspaper in Havana, Cuba, June 22, 2015. Eliana Aponte for Buzzfeed News.
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Each day Ferrer clips stories, arranging neat rectangles of paper, before pasting them by hand into folders filled with articles from the paper.
Cuban Ana Ferrer Alvarez works at her desk in the newsroom archive of Granma Newspaper in Havana, Cuba, June 22, 2015. Eliana Aponte for Buzzfeed News.
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Thousands of these dusty folders line the adjacent room, the rows tall enough to caress the ceiling and arranged so close together it was nearly impossible for Ferrer to walk through them. “This is my home, my school, my life,” she said.
Cuban Ana Ferrer Alvarez works in the newsroom archive of Granma Newspaper in Havana, Cuba, June 22, 2015. Eliana Aponte for Buzzfeed News.
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Ferrer began her career as a telephone receptionist while still a teenager at Hoy, a post-revolutionary paper that merged with another to become Granma in 1965.
Cuban Ana Ferrer Alvarez works in the newsroom archive of Granma Newspaper in Havana, Cuba, June 22, 2015. Eliana Aponte for Buzzfeed News.
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