Veteran of CT Newspapers Joining New Britain Herald & Bristol Press

Jim Smith, who has worked at newspapers around the state, has been named Executive Editor of the New Britain Herald and the Bristol Press. You’ll recall that the papers were recently saved from extinction by publisher Michael Schroeder who bought them.

Jim was most recently editor of the Connecticut Post in Bridgeport but he started his career at the Hartford Courant covering (coincidentally and poetically) Bristol. He was at the Courant from 1971 to 1984 and during that time served as city editor and sports editor. Jim then worked at the Torrington Register-Citizen, became managing editor at The New London Day, the Danbury News-Times, and for 14 years was the executive editor of the Meriden Record-Journal. He’s won a slew of awards and is the author of “A Passion for Journalism, A Newspaper Editor Writes to his Readers,” a collection of columns on the First Amendment and how editorial decisions are made in newsrooms.

We’re rooting for Jim and his colleagues.