I am sorry to report that Dave Bennett, The Courant’s longtime circulation director, has died. Here’s the Courant’s report. Claude Albert, former managing editor, has known Bennett for years, and refers to him as “a dedicated newspaperman.” Arrangements, apparently, are pending.
Writing for the Washington Post, columnist Dave Barry observes that journalism had its dark and bright spots in 2009: Bad news: The downward spiral of the newspaper industry continued, resulting in the firings of thousands of experienced reporters and an apparently permanent deterioration in the quality of American journalism. Good news: A lot more people [...]
Every publication I have ever worked for has done a Top Ten list at the end of the year, partly because it’s interesting, and partly because it fills space when so much of the staff is on vacation and not covering the news very much. So I figure the Hartford Courant Alumni Association and Refugee [...]
This piece by former Baltimore Sun reporter Carl Cannon has a touch of the holiday nostalgia that often sets in on Christmas Day when the excitement starts to die down. In this case, it applies to the newspaper industry. It’s view of the Tribune Company seemed sadly realistic. Meanwhile, a website’s unofficial poll names Tribune’s [...]
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