by: NetNewsCheck.com

Digital First Media announced this week that it will launch 12 new community newsroom projects, as it continues to seek ways to more effectively engage and involve its local readers.

These community newsroom projects seek to build on the success of the Newsroom Café launched by the Register Citizen in Torrington, Conn., an experiment that led to the newspaper being named the 2011 Innovator of the Year by the Associated Press Media Editors.