It was inevitable: Tribune closed newsrooms at five of its other papers in August. And in October came word that the Courant would no longer be published in Hartford.
But it still stunned to hear that the building the Courant has operated out of since the 1940s will no longer house the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper.
Staff members have been working remotely since March and apparently it will stay that way for the present.
Hartford Courant Guild:
This is what happens when hedge funds own newspapers. It’s why we need new ownership immediately.
Steve Metcalf, former music critic:
Recalling all the nights when, after some performance or other at the Bushnell, I would race over to the newsroom — brightly lit and loudly buzzing with life at 11:30 or midnight — and, in a kind of trance, bang out seven or eight hundred words, taking special care to triple-check the spelling of the soloist or conductor. And then, my task completed, bounding down the back stairs and out into the night —always pausing to admire the fleet of delivery trucks, lined up and idling, waiting to carry the early editions down to the shore or some other distant point within our almost gaudily unrivaled circulation area. Dammit, it was exciting.
U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st
This announcement is very disappointing and I hope Tribune Publishing reverses this decision.
