Looks like The Courant (along with all other Tribune papers) will be going to a new, narrower page width, (known in the biz as a “web width reduction,”) according to this report. This would not be the paper’s first, but if the trend continues at this rate (a width reduction every couple years since 2001), the [...]
The Courant newsroom will be another reporter fuller Oct. 26 when new hire Jenna Carlesso joins the breaking news squad. Here’s the announcement from Steve Busemeyer, breaking news chieftan: Jenna comes to us from the Journal News in Westchester, NY, where she’s been covering breaking news for the last year. Before that, she was the Hartford [...]
Jeff Jarvis is an advisor to Patch.com, (mentioned in the previous post), a journalism teacher at CUNY, and has a lot to say about the re-invention of the news industry. Here’s a recent NPR story about him and his outlook. (He’s also a Tribune alum.) This is an excerpt from the NPR piece: Jarvis’ prescription for journalists, oversimplified, [...]
Patch.com, the growing collection of local news websites, is looking for community news editors in Long Island and Westchester County. This is one of not many local news operations that are actually expanding. In this case, the company is growing into suburban Northern New Jersey, Westchester County and the Connecticut panhandle. (These are all nice, [...]
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