The newsroom of Baristanet is, on this sunny day at least, running briskly from an alcove in the Trend Coffee and Tea House, overlooking the main drag of Montclair, New Jersey. Site founder Debbie Galant and daily editor Erika Bleiberg have fired up their laptops and smartphones and are working the hour's hot story: bedbugs.
Their site focuses on local news from Montclair and surrounding towns. Today, Galant has noticed a local tenant's online complaint about bedbugs. She has the property owner on the phone explaining how he thought he had handled the problem.
Mentioned later in the article is 2009-2010 Reynolds Fellow Michele McLellan:
"I don't think the future model is to be comprehensive," says Michele McLellan, a veteran journalist who studied online community news while a fellow at the Reynolds Journalism Institute. "That's less and less the way people consume news."
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