From Colin McEnroe’s blog “To Wit”: Obviously there are more important questions at stake in Middletown today than how the news coverage went, but, damn it, there are times when you really DO want to know what’s happening and when you do expect TV news to be your eyes and ears on the scene. Read [...]
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WTNH sports producer Erik Dobratz and his father, Ray, who was killed in the Middletown power plant explosion The arrangements for Ray Dobratz are as follows: Calling hours: Friday 2/12, 5-9 pm, Swan’s Funeral Home, Boston Post Road in Old Saybrook. Funeral: Saturday 2/13, 10 am, Old Saybrook Congregational Church, Main Street.
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From Paul Bass’ article in the New Haven Independent entitled, “All Roads No Longer Lead to Print”: The New Haven Register‘s parent company’s new CEO told his 3,100 employees that he’s bringing their newsrooms into the digital age. To start: Every reporter gets a video camera.
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CT Local Politics may have shut down but that does not stop its contributors. The highly opinionated commenters and authors have migrated to the Connecticut Political Reporter. We knew that ACR and Anderson Scooper would turn up somewhere!
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From the Washington Post: Frank N. Magid, 78, the television “news doctor” whose survey research and advice to local television stations in the 1970s resulted in co-anchors who chatted between stories, fast-paced graphics, sports tickers and live shots, and a heavy reliance on both crime coverage and feel-good segments, died of lymphoma Feb. 5 at [...]
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Our hearts go out to WTNH sports producer Erik Dobratz. His father Ray, pictured above, was killed yesterday in the Kleen Energy plant explosion. Ray and his wife Paula lived in Old Saybrook where he worked as a plumber and was a member of the Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Local 777.
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