Informing the public, holding government accountable, amplifying diverse voices as CEO/Publisher of @CTMirror.
West Hartford, CT
Joined April 2009
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ProPublica once again chooses CT Mirror for their Local Reporting Network - one year of co-reporting a major story. 2019: @jacquelinerabe 2024: @davealtimari
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Eversource lays out plan for helping state achieve clean energy goals, suggests that unstable regulatory environment might cause the company to "narrow its spending priorities." ctmirror.org/2024/06/09/ever…
CT Attorney General @WilliamTongCT speaking to @JDankosky as part of @CTMirror's "In The Room" interview series: to work with Republican AG's we all agree to "put our weapons down."
An important signal from the CT legislature that local journalism matters! Thank you from all of us @CTMirror for your tireless commitment to advancing this bill, two years in a row!
We just passed a first-in-the-nation bill to support local news!
Local news is under attack. HB 5408 stands up for it by requiring CT agencies to dedicate some of their advertising funds to locally owned outlets. Proud to champion it with @kateforct and @AmyMorrinBello! /1
Testifying at CT legislature in support of a revenue-neutral bill that would allocate some state advertising spending to CT-based news publishers like @ctmirror. With Lori Henson @Rebuild_News and Kate Farrar @kateforct.
Disclosure: I, in my role as CT Mirror publisher, am part of the coalition advocating for a bill advocating revenue-neutral support for local news publishers. cga.ct.gov/2024/TOB/H/PDF/20…
Government provides funding for local journalism in many ways. The question is whether it is distributed in a way that best reaches the public. A first-in-the-nation bill addresses that. ctmirror.org/2024/03/07/use-…
Local newsrooms are struggling across the country - since 2004, more than 2,000 newspapers have shut down, including some in Connecticut. In the face of this crisis, we have an opportunity to give local journalism in our state a small boost. 🧵
NYC and Chicago have already implemented similar policies requiring local governments to spend a certain amount of already-budgeted advertising dollars on local news outlet placements. With Bill 5408, CT has a chance to set a standard for the rest of the country.
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CT’s “fiscal guardrails” were supposed to capture only unreliable revenues — funds that would be there one year but not the next — to pay down debt. But it didn’t work that way. (1/2)
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I recognized 34/52 people in the Times Faces Quiz (using 0 hints). How many can you guess? nytimes.com/interactive/2023…
Every opinion we @CTMirror publish is an important strand in a civil public dialogue. Some, however, go through the roof in terms of readership. Here's one that took off today: ctmirror.org/2023/10/13/ct-h…
My 62-year-old dad fought Hamas terrorists to free my family. The Israeli state failed us haaretz.com/israel-news/2023…
In Jan. 2017 @amirtibon hosted a group of us from West Hartford at his Nahal Oz kibbutz on the Gazan border. Yesterday he, his wife, and their young daughters spent the day in a dark safe room until they were rescued by his father, a retired IDF General. haaretz.com/israel-news/2023…
@ctmirror Executive Editor @ekhamilton4 and I are at #innys2023 awards where @GinnyMonk series on eviction is a finalist! ctmirror.org/series/noticeto…
NYT asked “What happens to communities without local newspapers?” Their answer: Residents of CT might have remained ignorant that dozens of state municipalities had been segregated by design, a story @CTMirror broke with ProPublica in 2019. nytimes.com/2023/08/20/opini…
Growing up in Stamford, seeing my parents’ friends standing on train platforms in miserable weather, I vowed never to commute to NY. And the commute is actually worse now. Please share your story with Harriet Jones for the upcoming season of @CTMirror “Untold” podcast.
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