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Tom Breen self-reflecting at a 2019 Artspace exhibition.
New Haven Independent Managing Editor Tom Breen is stepping into the top editor role at the nonprofit online daily news outlet.
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New Haven police assigned their sharpest-eyed shooters to a new mission — and they came back with arresting images.
by | May 16, 2022 12:01 pm | Comments (5)
Metropolitan Business Academy 11th-grader Neiel Ventura at DAE.
High school junior Neiel Ventura took a chance on a new after-school computer science program in Fair Haven. Months later, Ventura has set her sights on a career goal in technology and has cultivated the skills to support it — and built her own website designed to sell sneakers.
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A federal judge handed down a ringing endorsement of the First Amendment and open courts in rejecting a bid by five local nonprofits controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer to keep their legal business secret.
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Barb Levine-Ritterman and Adam Weber with their victory mugs at WNHH FM.
When Barb Levine-Ritterman sees a stray comma or misspelled word in the New Haven Independent, it feels like a sliver of wood has slipped under the skin of a finger.
That makes us, and our readers, lucky.
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When you donate to nonprofits you value this Giving Tuesday, please consider a contribution to the Online Journalism Project, which publishes the New Haven Independent and Valley Independent Sentinel and operates WNHH FM.
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An annual national fundraising event is underway that enables donors to boost local news, and double their dollars in their process.
Continue reading ‘Annual “News Match” Continues: A Chance To Boost Nonprofit Local Reporting’
by | Oct 29, 2021 9:12 am | Comments (2)
Jodi Latina
The news moves fast – too fast — in the age of the 24 hour news cycle.
That’s one of the biggest takeaways that Jodi Latina has experienced since her return to WTNH after a ten-year stint in politics.
by | Oct 25, 2021 11:21 am | Comments (0)
YAM Art Director Jeanine Dunn.
The hard-working crew at New Haven-based Yale Alumni Magazine captured a national award last week for “The Long Agony of Racism,” a cover package of stories exploring the issues raised by the police killing of George Floyd, published a month after his death.
Continue reading ‘“Long Agony Of Racism” Nets Journalism Award’
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Peter Hvizdak was driving around the Hill when he noticed a boy seeking to do the same — behind the wheel of a car with no tires.
He knew he had to stop to get that photo.
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Pete Hvizdak at WNHH FM: Register photojournalist has retired after 45 years documenting life in New Haven.
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Gage Frank.
Mayor Justin Elicker’s press spokesperson, Gage Frank, is leaving City Hall to take the same position with State Treasurer Shawn Wooden.
by | Apr 14, 2021 4:28 pm | Comments (2)
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Shumway reading to schoolkids.
“According to police spokesperson Officer Scott Shumway …”
Get ready to read that a lot in local news stories: Shumway has been tapped as the new public information officer (PIO) for the police department. He starts the post Monday, replacing Capt. Anthony Duff, who retired Wednesday.
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VP Harris greets 3-year-olds in West Haven.
So. What exactly did Vice President Kamala Harris do and talk about on Friday when she visited New Haven and West Haven?
by | Mar 16, 2021 1:20 pm | Comments (24)
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Jennifer Pope: Once and future mayoral “friend.”
Jennifer Pope is co-founder of the Hamden Progressive Action Network and a Democratic State Central Committee member. We asked Mayor Curt Leng to respond to the following opinion article before we published it. He said he would re-friend Pope on Facebook; she responded to his response. Those two responses appear at the bottom of this article.
by | Jan 25, 2021 3:59 pm | Comments (1)
Aliyya Swaby
Aliyya Swaby, who covered New Haven schools for the Independent from 2014 – 2016, is gaining national attention for her groundbreaking work on the effect of the Covid-19 on public education in Texas.
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The Republican Town Committee has turned to a no-holds-barred corner of the web to try to grow its local membership.
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Jonathan Wharton, Jodie Gil on WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven.”
Some local elected officials heard from their constituents more. They faced them less.
So went the first year of “Zoomacracy,” the move of municipal public meetings online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a study by two local government-watchers. The results offer lessons for year two — and beyond, when life returns to a new normal.
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On Monday night, the Board of Alders awarded veteran New Haven Register reporter Mary O’Leary an official citation in honor of her five decades of local reporting and on her retirement. Below is a transcription of the citation, which can be downloaded here.
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Hamden has been heated: Kerry Ellington and Police Commission Chair Mike Iezzi at a commission meeting that turned into a protest.
I was supposed to spend a few months watching elected officials fight every other Monday night. Spring would come, and I would run off to the circus, quite literally.
by | Nov 30, 2020 12:19 pm | Comments (0)
Generational shift: Mark Davis (left), Jodi Latina.
The state politics baton has passed for good at New Haven’s WTNH.
Continue reading ‘Pandemic Politics-Beat Switch Made Permanent’
by | Nov 13, 2020 3:02 pm | Comments (25)
Mary O’Leary posing questions at last month’s U.S. Congressional debate.
Joe Amarante, Randall Beach.
More than a century’s worth of knowledge about the city is exiting the New Haven Register newsroom, as three top reporters are taking buyouts.
Continue reading ‘3 Veteran Register Reporters Take Buy-Outs’
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Sunday begins an annual fundraising drive for nonprofit online local public-interest news outlets — including the New Haven Independent and Valley Independent Sentinel.
by | Aug 26, 2020 8:44 am | Comments (17)
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Kevin Morse livestreams Clifton Street fire.
The acrid stench of burning drywall wafted in through the open driver’s window as Justin Shipchack navigated his sedan into a parking spot.
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Officer Bandy on the set of his weekly podcast.
QAnon has a New Haven cop getting the word out to the public — podcasting conspiracy theories about how members of a Satan-worshiping international ring including China, billionaires, the Illuminati, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, and Oprah Winfrey are raping and drinking the blood of kidnapped children in pursuit of the “fountain of youth” while convincing people to risk their lives wearing masks in an orchestrated Covid-19 pandemic designed to, among other evil deeds, prevent President Donald Trump’s reelection.
by | Jul 29, 2020 9:07 am | Comments (2)
Ted Littleford
A warning, and call to action, as tech giants prepare to testify before Congress.