Flight From Fleet Street: Last News Outfit Leaves The Original 4 Times Square
Fleet Street — the seat of the British press for more than 500 years — is no more.
This month the Agence France-Presse London headquarters, the last news outfit on Fleet Street, packed up and moved to more frugal offices elsewhere in the city, ending more than 500 years of occupation by news companies.
For some Fleet Street has been dead since 2005, when the British news wire Reuters moved its last office off Fleet, leaving only the French.
Fear not! The Fleet Street legacy lives on online. Tina Brown’s Daily Beast is named for a Fleet Street newspaper in Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop (1938), which was based on the Fleet offices of The Daily Telegraph.
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