Monthly Archives: November 2015

The Big Story

The big election story in Connecticut is the comeback of Joe Ganim as mayor of Bridgeport. Who knows what to make of it, but lots...

Bob Englehart

Several sources with detailed working knowledge of the Hartford Courant confirm long time political cartoonist Bob Englehart has taken the paper's buyout offer and...

Tom Condon

Sources on Broad St. confirm Deputy Editorial Page Editor Tom Condon is among those who have applied for a buyout as part of the...

Our Favorite Line of the Day

              President Obama: Have you noticed that everyone of these candidates say, 'Obama's weak. Putin's kicking sand in his face. When I talk to Putin, he's...

New Directions

Even as the management team at the Hartford Courant works to sort out who will be leaving as part of the latest employee buy...

Voices From the Past

The worlds of journalism and academics seem to have moved beyond the recent controversy over the Wesleyan Argus. The student run newspaper has seen its...

Program Note

With the evolution of the Faith Middleton show into the Thursday-only Food Schmooze,* WNPR is going to carry three extra hours of the NPR...

The Axe Files

This is called an "it's Monday morning" post. It was a quiet weekend local media news-wise, but in our span of the globe to bring...