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Mondo Times editors
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 7:17am on Friday, November 20th, 2009 | Journal Inquirer Sues Courant For Plagiarism, the New York Times reported on November 19, 2009:
"The Journal Inquirer of Manchester, Conn., says that The Courant copied The Journal Inquirer’s work in articles published last summer.
The suit, filed Wednesday in Connecticut Superior Court in Hartford, cites 11 Courant articles it says were largely taken from The Journal Inquirer in August and September, and The Journal Inquirer has cited other examples taken from other papers.
Online, The Courant credited many if not all of the articles to the original newspapers, Richard P. Weinstein, The Journal Inquirer’s lawyer, said.
But in print, the attribution was often dropped, and the byline of a Courant writer was added. The articles were rearranged and rewritten to some extent, but some phrases from the originals remained intact."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/business/media/20paper.html
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 4:36pm on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | Employees of the Harford Courant will have to start paying for home delivery of the newspaper, Romensko reported at Poynter Online on November 12, 2009. Below is the memo from the Courant:
"Effective Sunday, January 3, 2010, the free delivery for full-time employees will be discontinued. However, all employees (full-time and part-time) will be eligible for a discounted rate with a savings of up to 72% for their home delivered copies and will continue to have free access to the Courant’s e-edition. This change is being made as Tribune consolidates benefits among all properties (we are the only property within Tribune that currently offers free subscriptions to employees). So, please consider supporting our business by taking advantage of home delivery."
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:57pm on Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | On September 3, 2009, Richard J. Graziano, the CEO, president and publisher of the Hartford Courant, said the newspaper had plagiarized the work of other local newspapers and offered an apology:
"The Hartford Courant is America's oldest continuously published newspaper. We've been in business for 245 years. We've earned a reputation for integrity and we take it very seriously. Throughout our history we have served the community by highlighting wrongdoing and violations of ethics when we find them. It is only right that we focus the same light on ourselves when we are wrong.
So, it's incumbent upon me as publisher to tell you that we failed to meet our own standards and, as we would with anyone else, we are flagging it, calling it wrong and taking action.
In short, after an extensive internal review, we have determined that over the last several weeks The Courant plagiarized the work of some of our competitors. This was not our intent, but it is in fact what happened. We are taking corrective action to prevent it from happening again. We have also disciplined the individuals involved."
The full story:
http://www.courant.com/news/opinion/hc-courant-apology-plagiarism-090309,0,1524843.story
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 1:52pm on Saturday, September 5th, 2009 | The Hartford Courant has been "borrowing" local news stories from other Connecticut newspapers, the Waterbury Republican-American reported on September 3, 2009:
"After cutting its newsroom by half because of the recession and sagging advertising revenue, The Hartford Courant found a new source for news — its competition — and found itself in a plagiarism scandal.
The episode began this summer when The Tribune Co.-owned newspaper began summarizing or rewriting other newspapers' stories and putting them on the Courant Web site. The company defended that as a legitimate practice."
The full story:
http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2009/09/05/business/435076.txt
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Mondo Times editors
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 2:02pm on Thursday, August 20th, 2009 | Why did the Hartford Courant's consumer columnist lose his job? Stephanie Clifford of the New York Times reported the story on August 17, 2009:
"The Hartford Courant and its former consumer columnist, George Gombossy, agree on one thing: that Mr. Gombossy was laid off this month. But was it because he would not stop unfavorable articles about advertisers, or because his job was simply eliminated?
The disagreement addresses a delicate area in journalism. As ad revenue drops, publishing executives are willing to go far to keep advertisers happy, running front-page ads and ads that look like news articles. Mr. Gombossy is claiming that Courant executives, under pressure from advertisers, did not want him to write critical reports about them, and fired him when he would not change his stance.
But Courant executives say that their reporters are welcome to write about advertisers, and that the separation between advertising and editorial content still stands. Mr. Gombossy’s complaints are just those of a “disgruntled employee,” Richard Graziano, the paper’s publisher, said on a voicemail message."
The full story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/business/media/18courant.html
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder Colorado USA | Posted at 9:47pm on Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | Can Jeff Levine save the Harford Courant? Andy Bromage of the Hartford Advocate posed the question about Connecticut's largest newspaper on May 19, 2009:
"Jeff Levine arrived three weeks ago at a Hartford Courant that veteran staffers say they don't even recognize.
Gone are the daily's state politics writer, its prize investigative editor and the reporters who covered state police, religion, the environment and so many other beats that made the Courant as comprehensive and relevant as any metro daily in the country.
In its place is a newsroom with lots of empty desks and a new boss whose orders are to make the Courant the best "platform agnostic content" provider on the planet.
Levine, a 46-year-old executive with a marketing background, is the new "senior vice president/director of content" for the Courant and Fox 61 news, both owned by the bankrupt Tribune Co. He comes armed with corporate media buzzwords like "platform agnostic" and with a reputation for substantially growing newspaper audiences in Florida.
His arrival coincided with the departure of the Courant's top two editors, Cliff Teutsch and Bobbie Roessner, who took a combined 60 years of expertise with them when they left May 4. He assumes command of a dramatically shrunken and demoralized staff at a time when the industry seems no closer to curing what Tribune CEO Sam Zell dubbed the "live virus" infecting newspapers.
Nonetheless, Levine seems optimistic, if extremely guarded, about what he sees as the bright future of interactive news."
The full story:
http://www.hartfordadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=13039
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Eric Kallgren
Boulder, Colorado USA | Posted at 11:31am on Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | The Tribune Company is merging its newspaper and TV operations in Hartford, the company reported on March 30, 2009:
"Tribune Company today announced that it will bring the operations of the Hartford Courant and those of WTIC-TV and WTXX-TV together under one roof later this year, creating the largest print/broadcast news-gathering operation in Connecticut. The combined entities will be led by Richard Graziano, senior vice president/general manager of the two television stations, who has been named publisher of Courant effective immediately.
"This is the future of media," said Randy Michaels, Tribune’s chief operating officer.
"Whether in print, over the air, or online -- the delivery mechanism isn’t as important as the unique, rich nature of the content provided. Bringing these media properties together will enable us to bring more resources to our news coverage, improving and expanding what we can offer readers, viewers and advertisers in the area."
Following the move, WTIC-TV and WTXX-TV will begin broadcasting news from a state-of-the-art, high-definition studio located in the Courant’s newsroom. Construction of the studio is expected to begin later this summer. WTIC-TV also plans to expand its news offerings by adding two half-hour broadcasts, one at noon and another at 6 p.m. Between them, the two stations currently provide 33 hours of news each week to viewers in Hartford.
Graziano has overseen Tribune’s Hartford television stations since 2005, and last July was promoted to senior vice president/general manager, assuming additional oversight responsibility for the company’s stations in Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. He is a veteran broadcast executive with a proven track record of success in Connecticut. WTIC-TV has grown market share consistently over the last four years, and its 10 p.m. news is #1 with viewers.
The Courant reaches more than 800,000 consumers in print and online each week and is the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. WTIC-TV and WTXX-TV are the only television stations remaining in Hartford that originate local news from the city, an important distinction for Graziano.
Steve Carver, who has served as the Courant’s publisher since November 2006, will leave the company following a short transition period. "
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