by | May 6, 2009 7:49 am | Comments (5)
The state’s attorney general stopped off in New Haven’s City Hall Tuesday afternoon to report that he and other attorneys general gave Craigslist executives in New York “days, not weeks” to clean up their “online brothel.”
by | May 1, 2009 8:37 am | Comments (11)
We know you don’t wrap fish in it.
by | Mar 30, 2009 12:19 pm | Comments (3)
The Tribune Co. announced Monday that it will combine the newsrooms of the print Hartford Courant and the TV stations WTIC and WTXX.
by | Mar 18, 2009 8:06 am | Comments (31)
Since it launched in New Haven one year ago, SeeClickFix has taken the nation by storm: It has spread to high-profile news sites in major cities and recently earned a $25,000 award for social media inventions and a perch at The New York Times.
by | Mar 6, 2009 12:13 pm | Comments (2)
Charles Gershman sent in the following review of Jeff Benedict’s “Little Pink House: A True Story of Defiance and Courage.”
by | Feb 26, 2009 12:31 pm | Comments (9)
The top executive of the bankruptcy-seeking parent company of the New Haven Register has left the building — buoyed by a secretive departing bonus.
by | Feb 25, 2009 12:29 pm | Comments (16)
(Updated 2:45 p.m.) Connecticut’s “oldest continually published daily newspaper” (for now) axed its D.C. bureau, half of its remaining two-person state Capitol staff, and its environmental reporter as part of what one veteran dubbed “The Mardi Gras Massacre.”
by | Feb 20, 2009 1:23 pm | Comments (0)
No bombs exploded when Beverly Gage made another trip to Wall Street. Not this time, at least.
by | Feb 20, 2009 8:19 am | Comments (22)
Dyslexia accounts for 90 percent of learning disabilities in America, and those who have it never outgrow it — they have to adapt. Sally Shaywitz (pictured), a national expert on dyslexia, who shared that statistic with a Citizens Television audience — then offered reason for optimism.
by | Feb 18, 2009 10:34 am | Comments (0)
By Hank Hoffman
In the beginning was the (fill in the blank). For poet Richard Deming, finding the right word is a means to challenging expectations rather than fulfilling them. With a shout-out to Ralph Waldo Emerson, Deming considers attentiveness to language — and particularly its surprises and revelations — a way of being fully alive.
by | Feb 15, 2009 11:52 am | Comments (1)
As a courtesy to the arts community of Greater New Haven, the New Haven Review staff preview here writing projects that continue to place local writers on the national literary map.
by | Feb 11, 2009 11:44 am | Comments (4)
You know something’s wrong with science education when 30 out of 32 Harvard graduates cannot explain why the Northern Hemisphere is warmer in the summer and colder in winter.
Continue reading ‘Ira Flatow Scorns Science For, & By, Dummies’
by | Dec 17, 2008 1:30 pm | Comments (2)
The Board of Directors of the Online Journalism Project Tuesday unanimously elected Norma Rodriguez-Reyes its chairwoman.
by | Dec 8, 2008 2:25 pm | Comments (0)
The Tribune Co., owner of the New Haven Advocate and the Hartford Courant, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Monday. Click here to read the press release. Following is an internal email message that Tribune owner Sam Zell sent to employees.
(Translation: “Partners” refers to wage slaves in whose names Zell created a phony “employee-owned” company in order to avoid paying taxes.)
Continue reading ‘Advocate, Courant Owner Files For Bankruptcy’
by | Nov 23, 2008 6:46 pm | Comments (13)
Children today must endure and conquer a lot of stress, and that sometimes leads beyond normal teen angst to violent behavior and emotional and mental problems, a panel of mental-health professionals said.
by | Nov 20, 2008 1:43 pm | Comments (7)
Future newspapers will be just like today’s, except they won’t require paper and readers may have to search for the news all by themselves.
New York Times science reporter Kenneth Chang has come to that conclusion after eight years on the job, including making one online video attempting to ice skate while explaining why it’s impossible to ice skate.
Or something like that.
by | Nov 13, 2008 11:11 am | Comments (2)
Clear Channel’s 960 AM radio station finally ran a censored interview with U.S. Sen Chris Dodd — on 960AM in Brimingham, Alabama, not 960AM in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘Clear Channel Runs Dodd Interview—In Alabama’
by | Oct 29, 2008 7:47 am | Comments (26)
A single father in New Haven revealed to a televised audience the “sneak attack” that prodded his son to study. The secret weapon? Text messages.
by | Sep 17, 2008 2:55 pm | Comments (28)
Police Chief James Lewis took a swing at the New Haven Register at a community meeting, questioning a reporter’s “ethics” for an article that appeared this week on a freedom of information battle.
by | Sep 16, 2008 10:10 am | Comments (1)
The middleman is out: Post your events, or your observations about neighborhood problems, directly through the homepage of the Independent.
by | Jul 28, 2008 1:25 pm | Comments (7)
Cuil.com, an ex-Googler’s move on Google, debuted Monday. What’s your take?
by | Jun 25, 2008 4:33 pm | Comments (3)
The publisher of the Hartford Courant informed its staff Wednesday that the company is eliminating 57 positions. It’s also cutting the number of news pages in the Courant from 273 to 206 a week.
by | May 23, 2008 11:33 am | Comments (1)
A judge who has fought to open the workings of the court to the public made a case for why it matters.
by | May 14, 2008 4:06 pm | Comments (8)
“It’s a new era for us,” said billboard owner Frank Nataro (at left in photo), as the city zoning board gave him the OK to revamp his old-fashioned Ferry Street billboard with new, changing digital displays.
Continue reading ‘His Billboards Don’t “Flash.” They “Change”’
by | May 13, 2008 7:52 am | Comments (15)
News kiosks won’t be replacing boxes on downtown streets any time soon.