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Betsy Yagla will be getting more scoops on New Haven news — this time from the inside.
Yagla is leaving her job next week as associate editor of the New Haven Advocate. She has been the paper’s New Haven news reporter, responsible for exposes like those detailing dysfunction at the Board of Assessment Appeals. (She’s pictured interviewing Alderman Marcus Paca outside Wednesday night’s bank-takeover hearing.)
Wednesday she moves to a new gig at New Haven Promise. That’s the college scholarship program for city public school students that’s funded by Yale and backed by the Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Yagla will be doing research and writing for the organization.
She’s the second city reporter in the last year to move from reporting the news to working alongside the newsmakers. She follows former Register City Hall reporter Elizabeth Benton, who left the paper last April to join Mayor John DeStefano’s staff.