Daily Archives: March 2, 2009

Does Anybody Care About Courant Journalists?

It may be some comfort to those Courant reporters, copy editors and photographers who were laid off last week that there is considerable interest in their fate and that of the whole paper. How do I know? Check this out. The following two graphs show what happened to the Refugee Camp blog during the course of [...]

Saving Journalism If Not Newspapers

In a comment elsewhere on this site, former Courant copy editor Carlos Cunha suggested that it might be time to start up a Connecticut news operation staffed by unemployed journalists.  There are obviously more than a few wrinkles in the notion, but the premise is not far-fetched. With so many journalists and so few available [...]

The Paper Where Less Is The Same As Before

Today The Hartford Courant will begin reorganizing its remaining journalists in order “to perform at the level we’ve been performing,” in the words of Publisher Steve Carver. Yes, and they will end world hunger while they are at it. How will the Courant keep tabs on Connecticut’s congressional delegation without a reporter in Washington? How [...]

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