New Jepsen Hire

Jacie Falkowski, Communications Director for the CT Democratic Party, is moving over to Attorney General George Jepsen’s office. She’ll serve as Executive Assistant for Press and Communications. She joins Sue Kinsman (former Hartford Courant reporter) who is Communications Director.

SPJ Awards

Society of Professional Journalists

The Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists announced its award winners Thursday night.

Two great newsmen were inducted posthumously into the SPJ CT Journalism Hall of  Fame: Ed Cotter and John Mongillo.

Sunday Talk

Face the State WFSB   11 a.m

Host: Dennis House

U.S. Senate Race

Guest:   Brian K. Hill  (R) for U.S. Senate

Analysis

Guests:  Christine Stuart   CT News Junkie,  Chris Powell  Journal Inquirer and Ray Hackett  Norwich Bulletin

The Real StoryFoxCT 6:30 am

Host: Laurie Perez

Christopher Shays:

Rick Green and Laurie ask the former congressman about his run for the U.S. Senate

 Karen Jarmoc:

Exec. Dir. Of CCADV (CT Coalition Against Domestic Violence)

She’s traveling to DC to support reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act: a bill that provides $600 million every year to help victims.

The Stan Simpson Show Fox CT Saturday, 6:30 amonline at www.ctnow.com/stan

Host: Stan Simpson

Segments 1+2: Education Reform coming to Connecticut Schools

Guests:Education Commissioner Stefan Pryor talks about the passing of the education reform law and how it will help in improving Conneticut schools.

Segment 3: Causes of Achievement Gap

Guests: Stefan Pryor, Education Commissioner; Armand Fusco, author and educator, discuss about causes of the state’s achievement gap.

Focus on Connecticut News12 Saturday: 7:30 am, 11 am, 2:30 pm, 7:30 pm.Sunday: 2:30 am, 7:30 am, 11 am, 1:30 pm, 5:30 pm

Host: Tom Appleby

St. Sen. Scott Frantz

(R) Greenwich, New Canaan, Stamford

 St. Sen. Bob Duff

(D) Norwalk, Darien

CTN: Capitol Report: Week in Review Sunday at 8 pm      Replays of: The Real Story (8:30 PM), Face the State (9:00 pm),The Stan Simpson Show (9:30 pm)

Sign of the Times-Picayune: Ceasing Daily Publication

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This Should Be a Good One

On Thursday morning at 9 am you can hear the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate (Murphy and Bysiewicz) debate on John Dankosky’s “Where We Live” (WNPR) or attend the event (free and open to the public) at Torp Theater/Davidson Hall on the Central Connecticut State University campus in New Britain. The questions will be posed by two former gubernatorial candidates, Democrat Ned Lamont (above) and Republican Oz Griebel (below).

20 and Counting

Dennis House marks 20 years at WFSB with a nice retrospective put together by co-anchor Denise D’Ascenzo. We love that his first report was on Labor Day traffic – the classic/cliche holiday story so often assigned to the newsroom newbie! Congratulations…

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