Daily Archives: May 20, 2009

Finding New Path Forward

This from Jack Atzinger, former copy editor:            On Monday, I started a paralegal internship at The Hardman McPadden Law Offices, whose main office is in Middletown. The internship is unpaid, but it will be invaluable careerwise. The firm also has asked me to help it create a newsletter. I’ll be paid on a free-lance [...]

Roberts To Head Online Investigative Fund

Larry Roberts, former Avon bureau chief and projects editor, has moved from the Washington Post to the Huffington Post. Check out this report.  Larry will be helping put investigative boots on the ground in what might be a ground-breaking way. Here’s an excerpt: Stories will be free for any media outlet to publish simultaneously. In [...]

A Second Thought About You Soldiers

I’ve been thinking about what I meant when I told Andy Bromage of the New Haven Advocate that I didn’t know if the new regime at Courant/Fox61 could succeed with “half-broken soldiers.” I was trying to say that there are a lot of people at the Courant whose spirits and loyalty to the company have [...]

The Future Newspaper …

… a prediction. Here’s an excerpt from a report about a study by the Print Industries Market Information and Research Organization (PRIMIR) released recently (my emphasis supplied). It has a tone that I find appealling — and credible:   By 2020, the report predicts that circulation for daily newspapers will have eroded by 26%, and Sunday circulations [...]

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