There’s a new community newspaper out there, but consider being the community that creates it
A printout of the first cover of The Week. (Photo: Marc Levy)
There’s something new out there for you – well, new-ish, anyway.
Some of the news, features and letters that get posted to Cambridge Day can be found Fridays in a newspaper called The Week. It can be a good way to catch up on stories you missed online and a better way to appreciate the cultural offerings Cambridge and Somerville have to offer: While Cambridge Day has so far posted them by hour and day, The Week puts them in the context of a map. It’s a good way to realize what’s out there for you.
Some people simply enjoy newspapers over websites, and for them The Week can be an option in addition to the website and newsletter (now also sent on Fridays) to see what’s happening in town.
The Week is certain to evolve. It may soon have features and content that aren’t online, just as Cambridge Day has perks that can’t be replicated in print – watchable trailers in movie reviews and Tom Meek’s Film Ahead column, for instance.
The paper may struggle a bit with consistency of content, too, with the new demands of adding print atop getting more news posted online for Cambridge and Somerville. But another reason to be in print is that because a lot of people enjoy it, local businesses like it too, and like to advertise in print. Will Cambridge and Somerville? We’ll see. But if they do, it’ll be a good way to take the funds recently donated in a crowdfunding campaign and multiply them, turning Cambridge Day into a self-sustaining business with a growing staff that can serve these cities for many years to come. (By the way: Page 6 is a thank-you to everyone who donated to the fundraising campaign.)
In the meantime, as a small front-page item in The Week argues, this is a community news organization – why not be part of the community that puts it out, in addition to being part of the community that consumes it? Come cover a beat in Cambridge or Somerville. Come take photo assignments, or give them. Come edit breaking news or event listings. Come sell ads on commission. Come be a publisher.
The opportunities are wide open here for people with skills, time, energy and an interest in seeing Cambridge Day (and, at least for now, The Week) thrive.
To join in, call (617) 230-9632 or send email to [email protected].
And look for The Week at coffee shops, restaurants, theaters, ice cream parlors, retailers, libraries and city halls. If you’re a manager or overseer of one of these businesses or community gathering places and want The Week, call EDS Distribution at (781) 801-9457 and let them know.
this is rather exciting with great possibilities. It makes sense that somerville should be covered considering what Cambridge and Somerville decides legislatively can affect each other. Also, Cambridge could get ideas from Somerville which, at times, tends to be more thoughtful.
I did see a “Newsbreak” version of coverage but really didn’t like the format at all and was harder to dig around in. And I hope that the weekly reviews also anticipates city council schedules and upcoming city commission and committee meetings in a calendar. Sometimes they are hard to find even on the city’s own calendar.
thanks and good luck!
This is great news. (Or, news about the news). I agree that there is still something positive and different about holding something tangible to read that doesn’t require batteries (at least for us older folks). I look forward to picking up a copy.
I’m so excited to have a print version of the Day!! Is there an online list of where to get it? If I got a copy, I could show it to some local businesses to ask if they want to have it delivered.
Thanks for the interest, Lee. I will email you what I know.
Does this mean Cambridge Day could qualify to become the paper of record for the City of Cambridge?
I just picked up a copy of “The Week”. Congratulations! Copies available at the Central Square library.
Where can we pick up this newspaper?
Look for The Week at coffee shops, restaurants, theaters, ice cream parlors, retailers, libraries and city halls.
Saw a stack in the doorway of an Inman Square bar this morning. Read it over breakfast. Good work!
Please get copies in Porter Square!
If you need us to ask for it at Cafe Nero, Zings, WrapPro, …. let us know!
This is good news indeed. There should be more writers too.
I just went to the Central Square branch of the library to pick up this week’s edition. But they have only the previous week’s. Will there be an edition for the 30th to the 7th?
By the way, it looks really nice! I love the events spread in the centerfold.
There will be an edition Friday, and I’m sorry about the trouble finding the current one. If the problem persists, let me know.
Thank you!