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.
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Reading room
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Binding room
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Editor’s room
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General Manager’s room
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Press room
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News composing room
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Machine room
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Machine room
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Machine room
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Machine room
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Ruling and paging room
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Employees of the Times Of India on the occasion of the newspaper’s Diamond Jubilee, November 1898
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Times Of India building, opposite St. Thomas Cathedral, connected with Elphinstone Circle
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Times of India Building corner of Elphinstone Circle
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