After many years in its office in Kinghorne Street, the South Register is this week preparing to move to its new location at the corner of Berry and Junctions streets.
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Come Monday morning we will operating out of a newsroom purpose built for the modern way of bringing the news to the community.
The new office is located right in the beating heart of the Shoalhaven, with the Post Office on one side and the office of the Gilmore MP on the other. This makes us even more accessible to the community we serve.
The office is designed for the needs of 21st century news gathering and publishing. It is WiFi equipped, meaning journalists and sales consultants are no longer bound to their desks.
There are special meeting rooms and booths where staff can collaborate on stories or advertising projects and large screen TVs that will tell us what stories our readers are taking most interest in at any one time.
While we will miss the old building in which many of us built our careers, the move to a high-tech newsroom will complete the transition into the new ways of news gathering.
Where once reporters would dash off to take photos and interview people for stories then race back to the office to write them up ready for the paper, technology now allows us to get the news to our readers from wherever we can connect to the internet. All we need is a strong phone signal.
We did exactly this from the Winter Wine Festival. Journalist Hayley Warden spent her time photographing people at various wineries and uploading the pictures that went online almost immediately. She did not have to be in the office at all and our readers did not have to wait to see the story.
And we did it when the coast was lashed by the east coast low the weekend before last. Together with our readers we told the story as it was happening from various locations.
Our new office will make that style of news gathering even more streamlined.
The investment in the new newsroom reflects Fairfax Media’s commitment to continue serving the community via the South Coast Register and Shoalhaven & Nowra News.
We know local news is important and we know our ability to bring it to our readers when they want it will continue to help us fulfill our vital role in the community.