Today is the last day Daily Dispatch staff will report for work at the gracious old building on the corner of Caxton and Station streets.
This afternoon, after pushing through an early deadline for the Saturday Dispatch, personnel from the editorial, marketing, library, advertising, circulation, facilities, finance departments and GO! & Express will clear their desks, pack their belongings into boxes and swish out of the sturdy revolving doors for the last time.
After more than 100 years of producing the region’s favourite read and documenting the stories that shaped a century from what was once a wool store, the Dispatch is moving to a modern, custom-designed new building at the hip Triple Point development in Beacon Bay.
This evening and tomorrow the IT department will swing into top gear to oversee the move of all computers and servers to ensure technical systems are fully in place.
On Sunday morning the weekend shift of duty editors, reporters and photographers will arrive for work at the Quinera Drive building with its industrial aesthetic and quirky angles to produce the Monday edition.
“Everything is ready for staff to move in,” said Dispatch facilities manager Sharonne Dewing.
“The new white desks and black office chairs are in place and the library and archives have been installed.”
Last night Dispatch management enjoyed a sneak peek of their all-modern workplace at a celebratory cocktail party held at the offices that have been designed as collaborative spaces for a multi-media age.
The Dispatch phone numbers will remain the same and a satellite office will still be available in the CBD for those wishing to place adverts.
Operations at the Spargs Beacon Bay office will also continue as normal.
End of era as Daily Dispatch relocates
This afternoon, after pushing through an early deadline for the Saturday Dispatch, personnel from the editorial, marketing, library, advertising, circulation, facilities, finance departments and GO! & Express will clear their desks, pack their belongings into boxes and swish out of the sturdy revolving doors for the last time.
After more than 100 years of producing the region’s favourite read and documenting the stories that shaped a century from what was once a wool store, the Dispatch is moving to a modern, custom-designed new building at the hip Triple Point development in Beacon Bay.
This evening and tomorrow the IT department will swing into top gear to oversee the move of all computers and servers to ensure technical systems are fully in place.
On Sunday morning the weekend shift of duty editors, reporters and photographers will arrive for work at the Quinera Drive building with its industrial aesthetic and quirky angles to produce the Monday edition.
“Everything is ready for staff to move in,” said Dispatch facilities manager Sharonne Dewing.
“The new white desks and black office chairs are in place and the library and archives have been installed.”
Last night Dispatch management enjoyed a sneak peek of their all-modern workplace at a celebratory cocktail party held at the offices that have been designed as collaborative spaces for a multi-media age.
The Dispatch phone numbers will remain the same and a satellite office will still be available in the CBD for those wishing to place adverts.
Operations at the Spargs Beacon Bay office will also continue as normal.
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