Daily Archives: August 10, 2009

A Seamless Entity

The lead story on the home page of Courant.com right now is part David Owens prose and part Fox 61 video — a good example of how the two mediums — and news teams — are merging online. (The same material appears on the Fox site, only it’s harder to find under all the promotional [...]

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An Alum Passes

Some of you might remember Dave Filon, from composing. He first worked at the Hartford Times, then retired from The Courant in 2002. Services for him are being held today.

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Endangered Species List

Patricia Sterling, a Courant compositor in the days before pagination, sends this link  from Time Magazine about how the paper in Ann Arbor Michigan eliminated its print edition. There’s a sidebar listing the top 10 newspapers likely to go under, and, thankfully, there are no Tribune paper’s listed. The piece does suggest that the Sun-Sentinel might acquire [...]

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