At Nieman: A newspaper finds success with its downtown news cafe
September 2, 2011
In an article at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, I look at the Winnipeg Free Press’s new downtown news cafe. The Free Press is pushing some of its newsroom presence out of its suburban office building and into the public, physical realm. It’s showing the public how the sausage is made, using more than just the online tools favoured by many news organizations.

Tim Currie is Assistant Professor of Journalism (Online Journalism) at the