A group of state legislators (as well as AG Blumenthal and Gov. Rell) are working with the Department of Economic and Community Development to try and save the New Britain Herald and Bristol Press. It is great to see legislators fight to keep these papers alive. However, when state government is looking to cut spending, it [...]
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It appears as though local radio stations have reason to believe there is a target on their backs. MaryEllen Fillo reports that a few local shows are being replaced by national syndicated shows. This is yet another loss for the state’s local media.
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Interesting article in the New York Times today regarding web-based news organizations - highlighting Connecticut’s own news “guerrilla team”: the New Haven Independent. The article relays how these types of operations have become watchdogs and have forced traditional news outlets to cover their stories. “Their news coverage and hard-digging investigative reporting stand out in an Internet [...]
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Via the Connecticut Gazetteer: Imagine that the ladder of “print” is getting slowly pulled up. Which mother ship is it getting pulled up into? We wonder if new chief Schiller will expand the part of NPR online that simulates print. And locally, they have the advantage of a strong reporting/anchoring staff. John Dankosky is becoming [...]
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Via the Connecticut Gazetter: The Courant has to hunt up a new left-leaning columnist to replace Bill Curry, who ended his column last Sunday. How they do this will say a lot about how well they grasp the changing industry. One possible move would be to reach back toward such “old hands” as Michelle Jacklin [...]
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The New Haven Register announced today that they are eliminating 20 jobs – 5 of which will be from their newsroom. The newsroom cuts include 3 employees who worked on the paper’s Play magazine, which will no longer be circulated. The Register’s parent company, the Journal Register Co., also owns the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press [...]
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