Former Courant Publisher Marty Petty is leaving her job as publisher of the St. Petersburg Times in what she describes as “a streamlining move.” A report by the St. Pete Times did not make it clear whether Petty was leaving voluntarily, but did say her departure is related to the paper’s staff reduction. So I [...]
Former Hartford Courant consumer columnist George Gombossy is scheduled to appear Thursday, 9 a.m., on WNPR, as John Dankosky’s guest on Where We Live. I’m guessing he will be talking about a variety of subjects such as key advertisers, disgruntled employees, “gotcha” journalism, newspaper ethics and the need for job elimination. It’s 90.5 on your [...]
Former Courant reporter Dan Jones is alive and well, working as Press Officer/Science Writer at the Women’s Health Research at Yale, Yale School of Medicine: I began working at Yale Dec. 1 and I really like it. I’m in a car pool from West Hartford that includes Bill Hathaway. I feel really fortunate to have [...]
The long-lost Sleepy’s piece originally written by former Courant Watchdog consumer columnist George Gombossy has emerged, shorter and in the form of a “Courant staff report.” In the spirit of fairness or, perhaps, unintended consequences of lots of automated software, the online version carries a link to the New York Times story about the Watchdog’s termination and [...]
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