Before the business got up to real-time speed with 24×7 broadcast channels and social media empowering us all to be citizen journalists, the news business was a slow, meticulous process that took time, effort, and manpower. In this series of images we see a slice of the newspaper business before telephones and computers – where every step was conducted with painstaking effort, and the news was probably more careful and thought out reportage.
For better and sometimes for worse we’ve come a long way since what we see here in these photographs that were taken at the Times Of India, Mumbai on the occasion of their Diamond Jubilee in 1898.
Reading room
Binding room
Editor’s room
General Manager’s room
Press room
News composing room
Machine room
Machine room
Machine room
Machine room
Ruling and paging room
Employees of the Times Of India on the occasion of the newspaper’s Diamond Jubilee, November 1898
Times Of India building, opposite St. Thomas Cathedral, connected with Elphinstone Circle
Times of India Building corner of Elphinstone Circle