The morning coffee ritual and journalism have always paired naturally in the reader's imagination—caffeine fueling both the story and the reporter. Now a new outlet called The Newsground is betting that readers will pay for both simultaneously. According to Nieman Lab, the publication is using coffee sales to fund its investigative journalism operations. It's a creative answer to one of media's most persistent challenges: building a sustainable business model for quality reporting in a fragmented digital landscape.

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