When you picture a newspaper editor, most of you probably imagine that I would be pouring over articles in just one title. 

Pulling up reporters for typos, checking stories, demanding answers and setting assignments, are most likely what you would picture a stereotypical editor would be doing. 

In films, editors are usually portrayed as an older man, with a bottle of whisky on his desk, who ponders, quite often while smoking, and then grumpily shouts orders. 

However that's not (quite) the case with my role. 

With six titles based out of three offices in three separate cities and towns, and a huge digital news presence across Hampshire and Wiltshire, I am often pulled in all manner of interesting ways.

It's no secret that local news has evolved greatly in the past two decades. The arrival of websites and the mass sign-up to social media has made accessing news easier and cheaper than ever. 

The web has brought about great changes for local newspapers - and my predecessors were not always at the fore of those changes. 

Companies like Amazon, EBay, Jobsite, Rightmove, Gumtree, Autotrader - even the likes of Tinder - all moved into areas that local newspapers used to dominate. 

It's fair to say that it's taken a while for local newspapers to catch up. 

While you may not be buying your local paper to look at jobs, classified ads or even find the love of your life anymore, I hope people are still buying the paper for the news. And for the value it adds to the community. 

Anyway, to come back to my original point, as a newspaper editor for six titles I am often called to do the most interesting things (in between the paperwork, office administration and other things like endless online meetings).  

One of these interesting outsings was to Winchester Talking Newspaper. 

A group of volunteers each week take a printed copy of the Hampshire Chronicle, read it and dissect it, pick out the highlights, then spend Friday mornings reading it out loud and recording a spoken version. 

They then put this version onto memory sticks (a version is also available from their website - winchestertalkingnews.com) and then distribute it to blind and partially-sighted people across the city. 

This is something they have done for many years, and despite largely reading the Hampshire Chronicle, they have not been officially affiliated with the newspaper. 

After one of their volunteers came to our Hampshire Chronicle open day, I accepted their invitation to be a guest reader. 

During a pleasant morning spent at their current base, in Winnall, I learned they were potentially looking for a new home. 

After much deliberations, I am delighted to say that they will soon be moving into our offices in Upper Brook Street. 

It's a pleasure to be able to help a charity by hosting them (one volunteer asked "how much?" and I replied "can you make a round of tea and bring biscuits?" - I think they were ok with that!) but also to help support an organisation that has been helping people to access our work in a different format for a long time. 

Reading our news out loud gives a new perspective of the language and phrasing we use, and I hope our reporters will take turns in guest reading for them. 

There is a growing desire for news to be distributed across all mediums - just look at the growth in popularity of podcasts - and with all their experience of creating audio recordings, I hope that we will be able to learn something from them as well as ensure that our news continues to reach everybody who wants to hear it in our community.