Publisher of Register Citizen to Launch Weeklies

The owner of the Torrington Register Citizen and a variety of weekly newspapers and web sites has re-organized intself into Foothills Media Group and will  launch three new weeklies in the Farmington Valley. Foothills Media Group is a division of Journal Register Co., which owns a number of Connecticut newspapers including the New Haven Register, [...]

Could Gayle Fill the Oprah Void?

We should go to Blogger jail for missing this story about WFSB alum Gayle King possibly getting her own talk show.

Politician’s Dream: Leave Office and then Give It Back to Reporters

Some in the Connecticut news media will remember John J. Ryan who served as a state representative from Darien and Rowayton for 14 years. In an opinion piece for DarienTimes.com he takes on the capitol press corps and its coverage of the state’s latest political news: As we have lamented in this space many times [...]

Rowland and the “Comeback Trail”?

Today the New York Post’s “Page Six” includes former Governor John Rowland among its blurbs about Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire and Jimmy Fallon…

We Are Thankful For…

Former Connecticut Governor Wilbur Cross’ 1936 Thanksgiving Proclamation The renewal of Colin McEnroe’s radio program on WNPR for 13 more weeks The new Dunkin’ Donuts on Capitol Avenue and Lawrence Street in Hartford. Partly because, as the Hartford Courant’s  Tom Condon has pointed out, the building was nicely renovated.  Mostly, however, because it’s near The [...]

Collateral Damage?

There’s concern among friends of former Hartford Courant reporter Larry Smith that he is being unfairly named in the Journal Inquirer’s plagiarism suit against the Courant. More from the Hartford Courant alumni site.

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