Daily Archives: March 12, 2009

Remembering Our Iron Man

I didn’t want to let many days pass before reminding folks what an important and  inspiring figure Jim Kuykendall has been around the Hartford Courant through the years. He has done a lot of fine, creative design work for the paper. There is more than I can recount or recall. Jim has also been a curious [...]

Hot Local Job Prospect

This just in: Full-time general assignment news and sports reporter sought for Hartford-area weekly newspaper with 15,000 circulation. Candidates must be experienced self-starters with an eye for news and passion for covering town boards and commissions. Send a cover letter, resume, story clippings and references to: Cassandra Day, The Middletown Press, 386 Main St., 4th [...]

Where Seldom Is Heard A Disparaging Word

One of the things Tribune Co. required of its last batch of laid-off employees was that they sign an agreement not to say anything disparaging about the company. The employees didn’t have to sign if they didn’t want their severence packages. These kinds of things are standard in many businesses, I know.  But newspapers are not [...]

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