Editor’s note: Julia Gitis is the founder of Community News Lab, a nonprofit working to modernize print news racks into digital kiosks. Gitis plans to get community input at the 24th Street BART Station on January 23.
Ken Cacich, a 72-year old San Francisco resident, has been reading the Bay Area Reporter, one of the country’s largest LGBT newspapers, since 1975. “It’s a phenomenal paper, because it’s geared toward gay news,” Cacich says. But recently, he’s found it harder and harder to find a copy of the print publication.
“One by one, they’re disappearing,” he said of the news racks near his home in Lower Polk. “They’re mysteriously somehow disappearing.”…