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Local News Day LA: Meet LAist and local newsrooms at neighborhood coffee shops
The LAist community engagement team spoke with Altadena residents outside Fair Oaks Burger in Altadena on January 17.
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The story first appeared on The LA Local.
Your neighborhood has a reporter. Have you met them yet?
On Saturday, coffee shops across L.A. are turning into places where you can tell a journalist exactly what’s been bugging you about your block … while drinking amazing coffee.
From Boyle Heights to Silver Lake to Inglewood to Long Beach, local reporters will be set up at neighborhood coffee shops from from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. — to hear what’s on your mind. Got a tip about a pothole that’s been eating tires for years? A landlord the city keeps ignoring? A community hero nobody’s written about? We want to hear it all!
It’s part of Local News Day LA, a pop-up series organized by The LA Local that connects you with your local reporter and give you a chance to become the source instead of just the reader.
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The school board placed Carvalho on paid administrative leave in February following FBI searches of his home and office. -
Smoke from a Boyle Heights warehouse fire expanded across Los Angeles and beyond. Some parks, outdoor programs and schools due to air quality concerns. -
The city had requested six additional years to ready the projects for construction.
LAist has been meeting community members in person through LAist Listens tabling events by popping up at local businesses.
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See below for the full list of participating media outlets and coffee shops — The LA Local and our media partners hope you’ll join us:
LAist will be joining The LA Local and other local media partners for Local News Day LA on June 27.
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Where to find a journalist
- The LA Local – Koreatown, Pico Union, Westlake will be hosted by Open Market
- The LA Local – Inglewood and South LA will be hosted by Asteroid Vinyl Cafe
- Boyle Heights Beat will be hosted by Picaresca Cafe
- CalMatters will be hosted by Yia Caffe
- Calo News will be hosted by Cruzita’s Deli and Cafe
- The Eastsider will be hosted by Rosebud Coffee (Highland Park location)
- LAist will be hosted by Cafe Calle
- Los Angeles Radio Collective will be hosted by Spoke Bicycle Cafe
- LA Sentinel will be hosted by Patria Coffee
- LA Taco will be hosted by Cafecito Organico (Silverlake location)
- LA Public Press will be hosted by Holy Grounds Coffee & Tea
- Long Beach Post will be hosted by Wrigley Coffee
- Q Voice News will be hosted by Hot Java
- USC Annenberg Media will be hosted by South LA Cafe (Western location)
Come enjoy a cup of coffee (or tea) with us while supplies last.
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