An auction begins today(Monday) for 285 Broad St. in Hartford, the former home of the Hartford Courant.
If the building sells it will mark a symbolic, yet distinct end of an era for the oldest continuously publishing newspaper in the country – an important, opinion leading institution in the state of Connecticut.
The paper’s staff has not operated from 285 Broad for several years now, but the sale of the building will signal an almost complete dismantling of a once dominant force in Connecticut public life.
Over the weekend, former Courant reporter and editor Joseph Nunes published his thoughts on this historic moment in the CT Mirror’s opinion section. Ironically, the Mirror was conceived as a reaction to the decline of the Courant and now stories produced by Mirror reporters are often featured in the Courant’s pages.
