Opening a News Cafe

The quickest way to a fickle audience is through their stomach.

The Winnipeg Free Press opened Canada’s first News Cafe, offering gourmet lunches, interactive town halls, and 15 kinds of beer.

It’s hard to get a table most noon hours, and the free public events have drawn large crowds, to what is being described as the new social hub of the Exchange District.

John White is Deputy Editor, Online at Winnipeg Free Press, a Winnipeg Jets live-blogger and a curler in Manitoba.

Photo by Daquella Manera on Flickr