Goodbye Fleet Street

The last two reporters working on Fleet Street walk out of the door for a final time, ending more than 300 years of journalism on the London thoroughfare, which became famous as a centre of the newspaper industry. Sunday Post reporter Gavin Sherriff said, "And down every side street there seemed to be a newspaper. So we had all the nationals, the Sun, the Mail, the Mirror just around the corner, Telegraph, Press Association, Reuters and so on. But today it's full of accountants and bankers." Darryl Smith, Sunday Post reporter said, “Even though all journalists have now moved away, there is still that attachment to Fleet Street as a centering of the profession. And we are that final torch bearer of history. For the profession, it's another tick of the box, that gradually print journalism is going by the by. And that's very sad, because the profession now is not the profession that I joined 25 years ago. And I think I preferred the profession 25 years ago."