‘Fresh brewed news’: Community café offers locals a chance to sip with reporters (csmonitor.com)
‘Locals were unsurprised that the newspapers were struggling – and there was little pushback to consolidating the publications into one newspaper.’
“I think a lot of where we are today is due to the perception that there are editors and writers away in this tower who are covering issues, but they’re not fully connected with readers,” Ms. Capetta says. “We’re trying to shift that perspective.”
“I don’t think brewing coffee every morning is necessarily going to solve all of the audience trust issues out there,” she says. “I do think for a local audience, the ability to attach a physical location and names to faces, to personalities, to people who are in their community, they shift the dynamic a little bit.”
There's also a Silent Reading Club.