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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.
Tom, 34, began writing for the Independent in 2015. He will oversee the assigning, editing, and publishing of all Independent stories on a daily basis.
He succeeds founding editor Paul Bass, 62, who launched the Independent, one of the nation’s first two professional online-only nonprofit local news sites, in 2005. (There are now over 400 such local and state news sites in the country.)
Paul will continue working full time at the Independent, generating content writing news articles, serving as executive director of the Online Journalism Project (the nonprofit organization that publishes the New Haven Independent and Valley Independent Sentinel and broadcasts WNHH FM), and hosting WNHH’s “Dateline New Haven” program.