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All Things Digital | Hearst Passes 300,000 Monthly Digital Subscribers, Takes a Bow
The Wall Street Journal’s Peter Kafka reports that the Hearst news organization, which is about to sell its digital magazines via Amazon’s new tablet, is now selling more than 300,000 paid digital downloads per month. So what does that mean? Because digital numbers aren’t uniformly reported yet, it’s a little hard to figure how that [...]
VIDEO | Malloy Discusses Budget in Bridgeport
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Hardball | With Egypt in disarray, Beck traffics theories
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LIVE STREAM DEBATE (REPLAY) | U.S. Senate candidates Mertens and Mosler
This debate between U.S. Senate candidates John Mertens and Warren Mosler at the University of Connecticut was live streamed by www.freeandequal.org. It was held on Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2010.
Paywalls and the future of online news
The JI’s website has come a long way since we began charging for full access to our website. It wasn’t an easy choice. We have since had more than a year to develop and digest data resulting from that decision. Since the switch, there has been a lot of good news. While we did lose [...]
Speaking of gambling in Manchester . . .
As we’ve been covering the opening of the new OTB parlor at Shea’s American Bar & Grill here in Manchester, it occurred to me that a section of the JI’s regular news website actually functions a lot like a one-armed bandit of sorts. If you’ve seen the JIBlogs tab on our home page, you’ll know [...]
Sometimes a photo says it all
JI photo editor Jessica Hill was on a freelance assignment for the Associated Press on Wednesday in Windsor Locks, where about 110 soldiers of the Connecticut National Guard’s 250th Engineer Co. were returning home after being deployed to Iraq last winter. Hill said today that these types of homecoming events are chaotic and difficult to [...]
Of cheese, iconic burgers, and use of the word ‘crisis’
I have to admit that I was a little concerned about the headline on Tuesday’s lead story out of Manchester. For a while I thought we might get calls or letters suggesting that we were insensitive to publish a tongue-in-check headline about Shady Glen’s difficulties maintaining the taste of it’s renowned crispy cheese. Why? Because [...]
Welcome to The Newsroom, a collaborative JI staff blog
Journalism is changing quickly these days. The Internet has opened up a Pandora’s box of potential for the news industry in every format available. Enterprising reporters can cut out the middle and market information directly to readers, listeners, and viewers. But what’s often missing in web-only news products is fact-based writing and perspective. Institutional knowledge [...]
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