After two decades in the newspaper business, assistant sports editor John Pettit is leaving the Meriden Record-Journal to take a job as a web writer/editor at Quinnipiac University. John started his career at the Naugatuck Daily News and has spent the past 19 years in Meriden. A former Wallingford bureau chief on the news side, John covered UConn men’s basketball for nine seasons. He has a master’s degree in journalism for Quinnipiac, where he has taught journalism as an adjunct professor.
