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Weekly newspaper moves to out-of-town office

A weekly newspaper has left its town centre office for a new home a mile and a half away .

The Louth Leader has moved to the out-of-town base at the Fairfield Enterprise Centre, on the Lincolnshire town’s Fairfield Industrial estate.

The Leader had previously been based on Eastgate, in Louth town centre, which is around 1.5 miles from its new home.

The move, which took place last month, was announced in a story on the Leader’s website.

The new home of the Louth Leader at Fairfield Enterprise Centre

The new home of the Louth Leader at Fairfield Enterprise Centre

It reads: “The purpose-built Enterprise Centre is based in Lincoln Way at the edge of the Fairfield Industrial Estate – just off the A16 roundabout, opposite the 24-hour Shell petrol station.

“Anyone who has an editorial enquiry for the Leader team will still be able to get in touch with our reporters – in person, by post, email, and telephone.

“To speak with the team in person, visit the Fairfield Enterprise Centre between 9am and 5pm, from Monday to Friday, and speak with the receptionist on duty.”

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  • June 15, 2017 at 9:13 am
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    Why? Moving out of a town centre to some non-faced industrial estate means you lose contact with contacts whom you might bump into in a town. May save money but does it save the paper. When I was semi-retired I worked part time for a weekly paper which closed its reception. It soon opened it again when the management realised people were not dropping in with a tale like they used to do.

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  • June 15, 2017 at 10:38 am
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    One or two of the more enlightened papers are moving back into their town centres – admittedly, mostly because they need smaller premises than they used to – and I’ve even read on here that Iliffe are reopening proper high street offices. The Louth Leader is 10 years out of date!

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  • June 15, 2017 at 11:16 am
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    The KM’s Sheerness Times Guardian still has a High Street office which is massively popular with readers who are always popping in with stories or booking adverts. It’s the way forward…
    (I say this with a touch of irony, having worked with groups which went gone out of their way to shut offices and then wondered why their newspapers lost sales).

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  • June 15, 2017 at 12:54 pm
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    I worked at the Milton Keynes Citizen in the late 1990s, early 2000s and even then it’s Bletchley office (on an industrial estate) was at least three miles from the town centre. While we received no stories from people in person we did get some cracking stories – but we had to fish for them. They mostly didn’t just come to us!

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