A weekly newspaper is about to be published without having an office, reports HoldTheFrontPage. The Hemel Hempstead Gazette, having left its headquarters, will operate in future largely through computer screens.Editor John Francis tells me there will be weekly face-to-face meetings of the half dozen staff. The first one is due to take place on Monday at a community centre. Otherwise, they will stay in digital contact.Far from being downcast at relinquishing the office, he sees it as another positive step in the transformation of modern journalism. An office, he points out, has become unnecessary. The days of people dropping in have long passed."We will still be talking to people and meeting them and getting stories," he says. "In truth, the office had no real function recently."One headache, the preservation of the paper's bound archives, has been solved. They have been very gratefully accepted by the Dacorum Heritage Trust, the accredited museum for the area.The Gazette, now owned by Johnston Press, was first published in 1858 and, until September 2011, was a broadsheet. Seen in the context of the sweeping changes wrought by the digital revolution, the switch to compact format was but a small step.Francis, now in his mid-50s, has moved during his journalistic career from hot metal through paste-up to on-screen production. When we spoke he was at home having just finished doing a couple of pages. Working remotely has become second nature to him and his team.As for future... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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