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Tribune Spinoff Decision Raises Questions

On July 15, Tribune Co., the company that currently owns the Hartford Courant, confirmed that it will spinoff its publishing business into Tribune Publishing on...

The Courant Wins Praise

CJR Assistant Editor Sara Morrison gives kudos to her hometown paper,  the Hartford Courant, for its coverage of Newtown: As bigger outlets from all over...

Owen's Progress

The Hartford Courant's Lori Riley updates the condition of longtime Connecticut sports columnist Owen Canfield who was injured in a car accident earlier this...

Columnist Injured in Crash

Owen Canfield, a columnist for the Register Citizen and former sports columnist at the Hartford Courant,was injured early Thursday morning when the car he...

Oldest and Best Continuously Published Editorial Writers….

We see on Facebook that the Hartford Courant's Tom Condon received his well-deserved "hardware" - his award from the National Headliner Award for best...

Catching up With Former WFSB Star Melissa Francis

Looks like Melissa Francis is a jack of all trades. Beginning with TV commercials for Johnson and Johnson, landing the role as Cassandra Cooper...

Social Media Spoils Surprise but Ratings Remain High

Despite social media updates, such as tweets, status updates and text messages  "spoiling" the outcome of the 2012 Olympics before they even air on...

Onus on the Campaigns

Over the weekend, CT's television stations received requests from US Senate candidate Chris Murphy's campaign to pull an ad aired by his Democratic primary...

The Perils of Translation

Apparently there's a growing trend of newspapers using computers to translate articles into Spanish. As poet and former Hartford Courant opinion writer...

The Courant's Choice

The Chicago Tribune is “suspending indefinitely” its use of Journatic, the hyperlocal content provider, after discovering that a sports story in a TribLocal edition...