Former Courant reporter Dwight Blint used to write about local government, and now he’s trying to become part of it. He’s a candidate for New Britain city council. Here’s how his wife and publicist Katie Blint describes it: In case you don’t already know, my husband, Dwight, is running for an at-large seat on New [...]
So it turns out that Dr. Sandra Scantling’s column wasn’t the only cost-cutting casualty recently. Her counterpart, Dr. Herbert Keating, also lost his place in the paper after seven years of writing “First Opinion.” EDITOR’S NOTE: Today [Oct. 11] marks the last of Dr. Keating’s First Opinion columns, which he has written regularly for the Courant [...]
Shades of Topix at the New London Day. Starting Tuesday, as part of its evolution from newspaper to “information company,” the paper abandons its journalistic integrity with respect to story comment boards. That is to say, the editors have decided to allow instant, anonymous posts and to rely on the “community” to police itself . Here’s part of their [...]
Budgetary limitations have taken another toll on Courant content. Dr. Sandy Scantling’s Intimacy, Sex and Relationship column finishes today. Dr. Sandy started four years ago at the invitation of Jeni Frank, then editor of the newly retooled NE Magazine. It was a bold move to ask a sex therapist to write for a general-interest family [...]
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