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Curating an earthquake
You couldn’t draw up a better example of a breaking news story that called for audience engagement to be at the center of news reporting. Gateway students text friends and family after being evacuated...
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Newsrooms join forces to prepare for Hurricane Irene
There’s nothing like a looming major natural disaster (in a state not used to major natural disasters) to test a new model of viewing Journal Register Company’s journalists in Connecticut as members of...
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Big news for our company and the newspaper industry
When John Paton took over as CEO of Journal Register Companyin early 2010 and laid out a vision for our struggling, old-school newspaper company that called for a rapid “Digital First, Print Last”...
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Investigative and in-depth reporting bolstered by ‘Digital First’
“What about the journalism?” That’s the question media analyst Ken Doctor asked a few months ago about both the philosophy of a “digital first” approach to running newspapers and the newly formed...
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Register Citizen Newsroom Cafe celebrates one-year anniversary
Hard to believe, but it’s been one year since The Register Citizen launched a “Newsroom Cafe” and invited its audience to be involved at every step in the process of local journalism. Boiling it down,...
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JRC Connecticut newspapers win big in Local Media Association contest
Journal Register Company newspapers in Connecticut have won 33 awards in the 2011 editorial contest of the Local Media Association, formerly known as the Suburban Newspapers of America. The New Haven...
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New position to focus on Freedom of Information reporting
Journal Register Company newspapers in Connecticut took another big step this morning toward building their newsrooms around the key areas of breaking news, community engagement and investigative and...
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What bankruptcy means for Journal Register Company newsrooms
First of all, let me couch this by saying that I’m speaking only for myself, and that I continue to appreciate the fact I work for a company that allows and encourages employees to think for...
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Ben Doody joins JRC Connecticut as managing editor
Ben Doody will re-join Journal Register Co. in a few weeks as managing editor of our Connecticut cluster. Ben is presently digital news editor of Hearst’s Connecticut newspapers, including the...
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Tom Caprood joins Register Citizen as co-managing editor
Tom Caprood, online editor at The Record in Troy, New York, for the past three years, starts work at The Register Citizen in Torrington today as co-managing editor. Tom Caprood At The Record, also a...
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