Channel 51 Prepares To Land
by | Mar 8, 2007 1:12 pm | Comments (1)
Get ready, New Haven humanoids, to tune into “Area 51 TV.” It boasts a “franchise pack of maniacs.”
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The Message Is The Media
by | Feb 19, 2007 5:45 pm | Comments (3)
Mytisha Spencer (pictured at left) played a double role at Stetson Library Monday: She covered a story about a ground-breaking new effort in which a neighborhood cop, a videographer, college students, and librarians teach kids the tools of the digital film trade — kids like Spencer herself and Anthony “AJ” Hicks (pictured at top with his mother, Tracey Jones).
WYBC Looks To Future
by | Nov 2, 2006 11:12 am | Comments (3)
Flying high in the ratings, New Haven’s WYBC now has its eye on the next big thing in radio: HD.
Mild-Mannered Reporter Jumps Newsrooms
by | Aug 31, 2006 12:21 pm | Comments (5)
Andy Bromage, a 29 year-old New Haven Register reporter known for his smart, fair, in-depth coverage of City Hall and public housing, is moving to the weekly New Haven Advocate on Sept. 11 (!) to direct the paper’s news coverage. (Bromage doesn’t normally wear a yarmulke. He donned one for this photo to impersonate another reporter in town who looks like him; the two are often mistaken for each other.) Bromage vowed “to beat the pants off the New Haven Independent and the New Haven Register on every major story affecting New Haven readers.” Meanwhile, the Advocate’s management has also promoted Tom Gogola, to the top editor post at the company’s Bridgeport-based sister edition, the Fairfield County Weekly.
Citizens, Alert; Orange Alert
by | Aug 25, 2006 1:39 pm | Comments (1)
You might think this guy is smiling because he just ate a delicious chicken dish at a Thai restaurant. You’d be right. He’s also excited about the the way he’s turning citizens into journalists.
New Haven Of The Midwest?
by | Aug 24, 2006 8:47 am | Comments (3)
Well, they do have those same fake downtown “trolleys” here.
Grassroots Radio Eyes The Future
by | Aug 10, 2006 10:13 am | Comments (2)
I arrive in Madison, Wisconsin, Thursday evening for the 11th annual Grassroots Radio Conference. I’m excited not only because it was my first GRC in 2002 that inspired me to quit my “day job” at an environmental organization and focus full-time on journalism —” mostly radio journalism —” but also because I went to college in Madison at the University of Wisconsin back in the heyday of the radical student movement in the late 1960s, and it’s wonderful to be back.
The GRC was founded by two visionary women —” Marty Durlin and Cathy Melio (pictured, left and right above) —” who worked at radio stations in Boulder, Colorado (KGNU) and on the coast of Maine (WERU), respectively. They were concerned about the corporatization of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, which up to 1995 had been the only organization representing community stations (as opposed to NPR stations). They felt the mostly volunteer-run, locally focused stations were not getting the respect or the support they deserved.
Most attendees don’t seem to have arrived yet, and I’m beat after 25 hours on the train and several more in the car from Chicago, so it’s off to bed for me.
Waters Gives Bloggers Their Props
by | Aug 9, 2006 3:10 am | Comments (2)
After midnight, after Ned Lamont had left the Four Points Sheraton ballroom’s confetti-strewn floor, one of the national politicians who helped him pull off his remarkable upset against Joe Lieberman in Tuesday’s Democratic senatorial primary walked down the hall to pay homage to the raucous crew she believes has rewritten the rules of American campaigns: the bloggers.
Hacking Charge: Was The Lieberman Camp Web-Clueless To The End?
by | Aug 8, 2006 8:08 pm | Comments (4)
The press story on the final day of the Lieberman-Lamont Democratic primary campaign may prove to be a symbol for dogged U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman’s camp from the start: cluelessness about the web.
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Tom Tomorrow Topples The Terrorists
by | Jul 10, 2006 1:05 pm | Comments (0)
Tom Tomorrow (a.k.a. Daniel Perkins, pictured), author of the nationally syndicated cartoon strip This Modern World, celebrated the release of his newest book Friday at Lulu’s Cafe in East Rock. Can you guess which special guests of blogging and poodle-bearing fame joined him?
The Vigueries Of Web Power
by | Jun 30, 2006 1:17 pm | Comments (0)
June 30, noon
This old-school “media giraffe,” more than any other person alive, is responsible for conservative Republicans taking control of our country. Instead of crowing, he revealed Friday, he’s hoping to use the Internet to “take back” the White House and Congress from George W. Bush and other Republicans who have supposedly sold out the right.
Welcome To New Acadia. You Live Here
by | Jun 29, 2006 8:17 pm | Comments (1)
New Haven, Connecticut…. United States of America? How 20th century! Get ready to join the soveerign nation of New Acadia. The media “giraffe” behind this revolution (pictured) let me in on all the plans at a summit on the future soul of the news biz.
Rice Krispies Journalism
by | Jun 29, 2006 2:18 pm | Comments (0)
Thursday, June 29
12:25 p.m.
That could be a good thing. The “media giraffe” in the top photo threw out the idea during a discussion on how to keep the news honest and trustworthy in the new age.
“NewsTrust” Found
by | Jun 28, 2006 9:31 pm | Comments (1)
Spotted: Real-life “media giraffes.” Seated around me at a dinner table, at a conference in search of the soul of the new media.
Best Of New Haven, The Party
by | May 18, 2006 10:45 am | Comments (0)
The Advocate celebrated its “Best of New Haven“ poll results Wednesday night by unveiling a new T‑shirt at a party at Bar, where people ate free pizza, grooved to live power pop, and, given the journos crawling around the place, had their pictures taken a lot.
He’s Bullish on Corporate Mainstream Media
by | Apr 18, 2006 3:28 pm | Comments (0)
Blogs? Fox News? Karl Rove? Lee High graduate David Wessel (pictured) — now the deputy chief of the Wall Street Journal‘s D.C. bureau — returned to his New Haven hometown Tuesday afternoon to say he’s not scared of those threats to the future of mainstream corporate papers like his. Well, not too scared.
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Advocate Editor Moves On
by | Apr 18, 2006 3:03 pm | Comments (2)
The New Haven Advocate’s editor is leaving his post June 2 after nearly two years in the job (“the longest job I’ve ever held,” he said). Mark Oppenheimer has decided to take a new job editing a journal called In Character. Since taking over the alternative weekly in 2004, Oppenheimer has reenergized a publication that had wallowed in timeworn predictability, adding a younger, hipper, and more intellectual feel. He also lured a terrific new writer to town. Managing editor Tom Gogola will serve as Oppenheimer’s interim replacement. Oppenheimer said he “couldn’t resist” the new job offer. “In my former life, I was a religion reporter, and it will be fun to step back into that world. When I no longer have to come into the office in the morning, I can check out some art exhibits, attend some lectures, and do my new job from the cozy, WiFi’d precincts of our local coffee shops. Oh, and play with my dog, J.J. She’s been a latch-key kid for far too long.”
The Neon Is The Message
by | Mar 21, 2006 3:40 pm | Comments (0)
The place to find the most headlines per square inch in downtown Tuesday was outside Moka on Orange Street. There was parked Kate Iaquinto’s Dodge Neon in all its bumper-sticker-plastered glory. (The rear view offers just some of the messages.) Iaquinto (shown on a break) tries to grab a spot out front when her barista shift at Moka starts at 6 a.m. Iaquinto, 23, is a wildlife biology grad from the University of Rhode Island. She plans to return to Rhode Island this summer for a seasonal shore-bird management job working with endangered piping plovers and least terns. People do read her car, she said. “I catch people looking at it three times a day.”
Star Typo-Catcher Caught By Camera
by | Mar 2, 2006 8:43 am | Comments (0)
Is that man drinking from … his brand new New Haven Independent coffee mug? Meet Keith Malloy, one of the Independent’s star typo-catchers. He received his first-prize mug this week after tying with fellow reader Jon-Jay Tilsen for the top spot in the latest round. They each spotted 116 mistakes. Malloy, who’s 33, was found at the front desk at the downtown Duncan Hotel, where he has worked for the last 13 years. Malloy said he enjoys scouring the Independent for mistakes. “I just am a fan of spelling. I like Scrabble.” And, he said, “I’m a nitpicker.” (The Stamford native said he is also a second cousin once removed of gubernatorial candidate Dannel Malloy.) Keith Malloy’s off to a good start in the newest typo round, though he has some tough competition so far. See a typo? Click here and help keep your news web site cleaner.
BAR Play
by | Mar 2, 2006 8:24 am | Comments (0)
BAR was bustling Wednesday for the second annual Play bash. It was a double celebration — of the youth-lifestyle weekly newspaper’s birthday, and of the Crown Street nightclub’s survival after a recent fire.
Ragin’, ‘Ritin’ & A Reportin’ Revolution
by | Feb 9, 2006 9:20 am | Comments (1)
Two statewide circles converged Wednesday night: passionate politicos and practitioners of the emerging new grassroots online journalism. They gathered in the spicy environs of the Rajun Cajun in Hartford’s North End for a celebration of CT News Junkie, the Independent’s sister news web site to the north. In less than a year of operation founder Dan Levine (pictured) has made the site the state’s go-to location for the skinny on state politics and government.
Jacklin Jumps to John
by | Jan 12, 2006 4:57 pm | Comments (0)
For years this was the face on the state’s most respected state political newspaper column. Now it will be the policy face of John DeStefano’s gubernatorial campaign.
Layoffs Hit the Reg
by | Jan 5, 2006 3:00 pm | Comments (3)
Staffers at the New Haven Register are stunned — and wondering who might be next — after the company decided to lay off veteran photographers Aaron Flaum and Mia Malafronte (pictured).
A Grassroots Media Bash
by | Dec 14, 2005 9:50 am | Comments (4)
Connecticut Attorney General Dick Blumenthal has timing. Moments after reports of a rigged raffle at a party Tuesday night to celebrate the launch of two independent (i.e. non-corporate-owned) news web sites — this one, and La Voz Hispana— Blumenthal made an appearance. The reports proved unfounded, but the AG found time to schmooze with La Voz publisher and Online Journalism Project board member Norma Rodriguez-Reyes (above).
Noam Benson-Tilsen (at left), a typo-catcher in training from Westville, hobnobbed at the bash at La Voz’s Elm Street offices. Check out some of the other folks who made it to the party to have fun, nosh on scrumptious homemade Latino and kosher dishes, compete for door prizes, and support community journalism.
No, “Mamacita”!
by | Oct 28, 2005 3:24 pm | Comments (0)
This is a family website, so we won’t show you the rest of this centerfold in the latest issue of Registro, the New Haven Register-published Spanish-language weekly newspaper. Let’s just say that Latino organizations have seen the full page. They’re disgusted, and livid.