Daily Archives: December 3, 2009

The Ever-Widening News Hole

As the history of the decline of America’s mainstream newspaper industry is being written, The Courant plays a significant role. So it does in this overview piece in The Quill, written by Daniel Axelrod. The Refugee Camp gets its two-cents’ worth in, too.

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The Mirror, Then And Now

When the nonprofit Connecticut Mirror website debuts early next year, it won’t be the first time the name has been used in Connecticut journalism circles. We noticed the other day that there was a newspaper called the Connecticut Mirror back in the early 1800s. We don’t know whether the choice of the name for the [...]

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John Springer — One Busy Guy

Many alumni no doubt remember John Springer, the talented reporter who was on the Courant’s Pulitzer Prize winning team that covered the Connecticut Lottery headquarters killings. He also was the Courant’s pioneer online reporter. This was at a time when newsroom culture frowned on breaking news on the web, thinking it would only give the print [...]

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