I thought you alumni would be interested in new Courant Publisher Rich Graziano’s vision for the combined Hartford Courant / TV operation: Dear Colleagues, We are living and working in extraordinary times. Our generation has never before faced a more challenging business environment. Companies declaring bankruptcy, newspaper closings, and layoffs …This is reality and [...]
Well, we knew TV was moving into the Broad Street building in a big way, but didn’t stop to think that it would mean a new leadership arrangement. Here’s the Tribune release about the new publisher and the new plan. new-publisher-release courant.com story P.S. Welcome, Steve Carver, to the Hartford Courant Alumni Association and Refugee [...]
Colin McEnroe is having a variant of the pipe dream many of us unemployed journalists have about starting a new kind of news service. Here’s his take. Speaking as an unemployed journalist who is currently enrolled in a culinary arts program, I like Colin’s idea. It has the right community feel, a food component, and [...]
The New York Times says European papers are doing better than American ones. My reading of this piece is that much of their online profit is from add-ons to the news and direct charges to readers. Meanwhile, as GM sinks deeper into trouble, Michigan appears to be on the cutting edge of newspaper breakdown. Papers are shutting [...]
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