The most important instinct of a journalist is curiosity - or some might say nosiness - about what's going on.
First in Mort Street, then Pirie Street in Fyshwick, and now back in the city, The Canberra Times offices have always been staffed by people endlessly curious about their city.
The work has taken them on adventures into fire zones, on the federal election trail, to stadiums around the world and to meetings with the famous.
But gathering news and pictures is only one part of the endeavour. Sub-editors, producers, editors, typesetters, printers, cartoonists and copypeople are just some of the many roles that have got newspapers on people's lawns and now breaking news on their phones.
Today we've dug into the archives for those rare occasions when the camera has been turned back on ourselves.
