The Dispatches desk
Dispatches
Field notes from the rooms, night shifts and back offices where the work happens.
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Dispatches articles
Night shift at the data centre
Between midnight and six, the cloud is eleven people, a golf cart and a very specific smell.
The last letterpress in Fort Kochi
K. R. Damodaran has been setting type by hand since 1971. His customers are now almost entirely people who design on screens.