Twitter and Facebook as Newspaper

Want your own personal newspaper? Paper.li, the product of Swiss startup SmallRivers, organizes the content drawn from shared Twitter links into an easily-digestible newspaper-like layout in a Web browser. This is similar to the iPad’s ‘Flipboard’ but is accessible from any web-connected PC.  

NB Herald Named Newspaper of the Year

Congratulations to the New Britain Herald for being named New England Newspaper of the Year by the New England Newspaper & Press Association in its circulation category. According to the association, the Herald received high marks for the quality of reporting and writing, design and photography, headline writing, sports coverage, the quality of editorial argument [...]

Scare at Connecticut Post

From the Connecticut Post: A man toting a backpack who walked up to some undercover federal agents saying he was “sorry” touched off a bit of a scare Thursday afternoon. Half a dozen police cars responded to the agents’ call for backup and converged in front of the Connecticut Post offices at 410 State St.

Today’s Media Links

Dean Pagani interviews our own Duby McDowell about The Laurel. The Globe is cutting back its newsroom. Twitter breaks another news story. Something about a plane in the hudson…

Print Blogs

The Hartford Courant has been dissected by every angle since it redesigned its layout.  One aspect that is fascinating is how there are sections that look and read like a blog.  For instance, the On the Fly sports column is a summary of the past 24 hours in sports.  What is important to note is [...]

Hladky’s Back

Actually, Greg Hladky never went away – he was just unceremoniously laid off by the New Haven Register last March after a couple decades covering state government. We’ve been happy to see his byline show up in the New York Times’ “Connecticut” section, and this morning we heard him on WNPR’s “Where We Live”, hosted [...]

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