That’s true at least in the U.K., according to a story Friday from The Guardian’s Roy Greenslade. In a survey of 10,000 people from Pressat (a “news distribution service,” according to Twitter,) “85 per cent said they drink at least three cups of coffee a day, and nearly 70 per cent admitted that their working ability would be affected without a daily mug of coffee.”
Topping that list by profession was journalists, followed by police officers and then teachers. I haven’t found any surveys that break coffee drinking down by profession in the U.S., but in September of 2013, Dunkin Donuts surveyed more than 3,500 people and reported that “61 percent of workers who drink coffee drink at least two cups per day.” People in the Northeast drank the most coffee, but they only had Midwesterners beat by 1 percentage point.
In February I wrote about lost newsroom sounds and what sounds might vanish next. One reader wrote “The sizzle of the coffee drip on the burner. That sound will never go away as long as newsrooms have coffeemakers.”
If you haven’t seen this Tumblr yet, now is the perfect time to check it out. Mugs of NPR features, well, mugs at NPR. “varied, colorful, a little weird … nerdy. reflective. like us.”
How does the making or enjoying of coffee work into your day? When I worked full-time in my first newsroom, Nelda, the receptionist, prepared a fresh pot every afternoon. It was always enough to help me over the afternoon slump. Send me your coffee stories to khare@poynter.org or tweet them to @kristenhare.
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