by | Jun 18, 2010 1:03 pm | Comments (9)
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In a season when other public figures are running for statewide government office, New Haven native Veronica Douglas-Givan has mounted a spirited campaign for a national perch of a different sort: a television talk show.
by | May 28, 2010 2:41 pm | Comments (1)
Jodie Mozdzer & Eugene Driscoll run the Valley Independent Sentinel.
Reporters from three news websites published by the Online Journalism Project — the Valley Independent Sentinel, the Branford Eagle, and the New Haven Independent — won awards Thursday night from the Connecticut Society for Professional Journalists.
by | May 14, 2010 2:13 pm | Comments (28)
Independent staff reporter Thomas MacMillan’s coverage of East Haven police harassment of Hispanics won him the 2010 National Award for Excellence in American Journalism on Latino issues.
by | Apr 20, 2010 11:19 am | Comments (14)
The next time Elizabeth Benton shows up at the Board of Aldermen, she won’t be covering the news. She’ll be making it.
Continue reading ‘City Hall Reporter Joins The City Hall Team’
by | Apr 13, 2010 2:08 pm | Comments (1)
Westville came alive Monday evening with the words, the melodies, and the juggling of Wisenheimers.
by | Feb 23, 2010 8:54 am | Comments (4)
Storm the telecom blockades! Tear down the news “paywalls”! Broadband for all, cheap!
by | Feb 8, 2010 3:33 pm | Comments (15)
The New Haven Register‘s parent company’s new CEO told his 3,100 employees that he’s bringing their newsrooms into the digital age. To start: Every reporter gets a video camera.
by | Jan 15, 2010 12:30 pm | Comments (1)
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It’s not that all men are selfish, short-sighted louts. Just many of them. But women can take care of themselves, thank you.
by | Jan 15, 2010 10:03 am | Comments (10)
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Move over, Imus. A real live New Haven radio personality is snagging your syndicated AM drive-time spot in these parts — - and returning to the studio where he started his career as Glenn Beck’s sidekick.
by | Jan 14, 2010 12:08 pm | Comments (5)
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Katharine Weber took a look at the shuttered brick plant. She imagined it buzzing with machines and laborers, 80 years ago. Helen Rosenberg looked at the building and imagined a shopkeeper behind the glass of the street-level arched windows, with artists working upstairs — years into the future.
Continue reading ‘On River Street, Factory’s Past Meets Future’
by | Dec 1, 2009 5:03 pm | Comments (3)
Washington, D.C. — Is Rupert Murdoch really taking on Google and launching Web War I? Or is he “whining” for show — while imitating news aggregators and positioning for a better deal?
by | Nov 13, 2009 12:26 pm | Comments (3)
Many people in the U.S. are incapable of rational thought. That makes the explanatory job of science journalists all but impossible. So Newsweek Senor Editor Sharon Begley said during an appearance at Yale.
by | Oct 30, 2009 8:45 am | Comments (6)
In Jason Silva’s and Max Lugavere’s newspaperless future, everyone with a computer and an idea will be able to disseminate their views on the Web, without worrying about editors, fairness, or objectivity.
by | Oct 2, 2009 9:25 am | Comments (21)
In the wake of a literary tempest, the author of a controversial new book about Islam came face to face with a man responsible for, in some critics’ view, censoring her work.
Continue reading ‘Expert Confronts Author On “Killer” Cartoons’
by | Sep 25, 2009 7:21 am | Comments (32)
It took lunch at Lorenzo’s — and a personal intervention from Mayor John DeStefano — to finally settle a police union contract.
by | Sep 21, 2009 3:42 pm | Comments (14)
New Haven’s top public defender is demanding an investigation into leaks about the Annie Le murder — but he promised he doesn’t want journalists subpoenaed.
Continue reading ‘Public Defender: I Don’t Want Annie Le Reporters Investigated’
by | Sep 21, 2009 11:30 am | Comments (42)
Life has changed for Joe Avery — back to normal.
by | Sep 15, 2009 5:13 pm | Comments (5)
When Joe Avery had no news to report about Yale graduate student Annie Le’s death, the national news media made its own — by rushing the police spokesman and injuring a TV producer.
Continue reading ‘NBC Producer Trampled At Annie Le “Briefing”’
by | Aug 14, 2009 10:45 am | Comments (1)
If Dr. Lisa Sanders’ stories sound a little like the fictional Dr. House, it is no coincidence.
Continue reading ‘New Book In Tow, Sanders Mines Medicine’s “Narrative Art”’
by | Jun 26, 2009 7:34 am | Comments (0)
NEW YORK — After a federal judge announced he was delaying a decision on the New Haven Register parent company’s bankruptcy, the chain’s interim CEO made an announcement of his own to a reporter: The layoffs are over.
by | Jun 24, 2009 10:58 am | Comments (0)
They recalled a cherished community institution that died an unceremonious death — and welcomed a new one by the same name.
by | Jun 16, 2009 10:55 am | Comments (8)
Gov. M. Jodi Rell finally has some good news: a reporter who has been calling her bluff is leaving Connecticut.
by | May 18, 2009 12:40 pm | Comments (5)
I. F. Stone, writer of truth to power, hero to generations of independent journalists … and Soviet agent?
by | May 17, 2009 9:09 pm | Comments (0)
Following are the latest internal memo from the Tribune Co. — bankruptcy-seeking and job-shedding owner of the Hartford Courant and New Haven Advocate — about the top dog brought in to oversee “content.”
by | May 14, 2009 8:02 am | Comments (2)
Critics have one more chance to convince a judge not to allow the bankruptcy-seeking Journal-Register Co.‘s plan to pay execs $1.7 million in “shutdown bonuses” for closing newspapers and laying off employees.