Morley Safer on “Citizen Journalism”

New York’s Metropolitan Club was the setting yesterday for a luncheon at which Quinnipiac’s School of Communications honored CBS’ Morley Safer with its 16th Annual Fred Friendly First Amendment Award.  The comments by Chester resident Safer are worth reading: go to http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x1024.xml

Summertime at The Laurel

No, no, it doesn’t mean we’re taking time off…but our roots are in the news business where summer means the arrival of summer interns. We’re welcoming Claire Bourque of Tolland who has just finished her first year at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Journalism, majoring in public relations. You will see her name as a [...]

Brandon Rudat on the West Coast

After moving from NBC30 to WHDH-TV Channel 7, in Boston, Brandon Rudat is now keeping busy in Los Angeles as a general assignment reporter for a CW affiliate. He has covered news such as a burglary at Lindsay Lohan’s house to the brush fires in Santa Barbara. That must be quite a change from the [...]

Wedding Bells at WKSS-FM 95.7

MaryEllen Fillo reported today in the Courant’s JAVA column that morning deejay, Courtney of WKSS-FM, 95.7, “finally is going to get a last name.” That’s right, Courtney is engaged to Timothy Jones of West Hartford. There were no comments yet from her morning show co-deejays, Jordan and Walmart Jeff.

The Color of News

Tiana Notice, Johanna Justin-Jinich, and Ashley Peoples were all victims of alleged stalkers. In the wake of the recent murder at Wesleyan, Hartford Courant columnist Helen Ubinas examines the role of race in the coverage of violent crime.

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