Daily Archives: October 29, 2009

Creating More Refugees

A few more Courant jobs have migrated to Chicago. This time it’s the folks who were inputting death notice information as it arrived from funeral homes. Several employees were laid off, I hear. And I guess that’s part of the problem when your company is owned by a bigger company in another state. It gets to [...]

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Slip Of The Clicker (Plagiarism) Addendum

Apparently that little plagiarism incident involving the Courant’s women’s basketball blog was noticed at high levels of Tribune management, where it was not well received. Nobody was fired, but some suspensions were handed out. Substitute bloggers have been posting on the blog for the last few days. The paper didn’t make a big public deal [...]

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Happy 245th Birthday

Henry McNulty, the former ombudsman whose father literally wrote the book on The Hartford Courant, reminds us that today is the paper’s 245th birthday. (And in one of life’s little ironies, there is another birthday, too.) Answer: It is. Here, too. Of course this invites speculation as to how many more years The Courant has [...]

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