AAN News
New Haven, Hartford, Fairfield Advocates Merged with Entertainment Weekly
Tribune Co. subsidiary CT1 Media has merged its three Connecticut alt-weeklies — Hartford Advocate, New Haven Advocate, and Fairfield County Weekly — with the entertainment weekly previously published by the daily Hartford Courant.
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New Mass Media |
12-03-2013 11:30 am |
Industry News
Former Alt-Weekly Writer Brews Unemployed Reporter Porternew
The brew by former Hartford Advocate writer Jon Campbell is billed as "the first beer brewed by print journalists, for print journalists."
ct.com |
02-04-2013 12:00 pm |
Honors & Achievements
Tags: Hartford Advocate
Tribune Co. Lays Off New Mass. Media Employees, Group Publishernew
The Tribune Company has laid off New Mass. Media group publisher Joshua Mamis along with two graphic designers. The company publishes publishes the Fairfield County Weekly, Hartford Advocate, and New Haven Advocate.
New Haven Independent |
07-11-2011 12:41 pm |
Industry News
Hartford Advocate Launches Pot Advice Columnnew
The Connecticut alt-weekly this week introduced "High Concept," a new pot advice column that aims to "address questions of all the smokers out there" in an "entertaining but also useful and informative" way. "We're hoping there will be smart questions about neuroscience, memory studies, the law, high quality, pot culture, etc.," Advocate managing editor John Adamian says in an email.
Hartford Advocate |
06-03-2010 10:58 am |
Industry News
Connecticut Alt-Weeklies Outsource This Week's Issue
When a news website in Pasadena made headlines last year for its decision to outsource City Hall coverage to reporters in India, the group managing editor of the Hartford Advocate, New Haven Advocate and Fairfield County Weekly wondered if his three alt-weeklies could do the same thing. While John Adamian's idea started as a joke, it quickly led to an actual exercise in outsourcing journalism -- and the results are this week's papers, which have been mostly generated by Indian freelancers. The papers say the experiment proves that outsourcing a local newspaper is possible, but not recommended. "Call us old-school, but we think good, old-fashioned shoe-leather journalism is worth the price," the staff writes in an editors' note. "Outsourcing could certainly fill pages, probably very cheaply, but what's lost is the very essence of local newspapers: presence."
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New Mass. Media Press Release |
05-27-2009 9:16 am |
Press Releases
Advocate Freelancer Weighs in on Tribune Bankruptcy Filingnew
"What does this mean for the Advocates? Who the fuck knows? We're so low in the Tribune food chain that we're not even mentioned in the annual reports," writes Christopher Arnott, who spent 17 years as an Advocate staffer before going full-time freelance. "The Advocate's sucked it up before and [stayed] alive in hard times. Let's hope the corporation gives it the chance to do it again."
New Haven Advocate |
12-09-2008 9:12 am |
Industry News
Former Alt-Weekly Film Critic Sentenced to Nine Months in Sex Casenew
The Stamford Advocate |
06-26-2008 1:06 pm |
Legal News
Tags: Hartford Advocate
NEPA Names Boston Phoenix 'Newspaper of the Year,' Gives Alts Many Awardsnew
The Phoenix was named "Newspaper of the Year" in the alternative weekly division by the New England Press Association in its 2007 Better Newspaper
Contest. "After 40 years, the Boston Phoenix remains a model for alts, bristling with attitude and loaded with coverage of entertainment, culture, politics, and tweaking of the daily press," the judges say. The Boston alt-weekly led the pack of AAN papers represented in the awards with 12 first-place finishes. Boston's Weekly Dig was close behind it's crosstown competitor, grabbing seven first-place awards. The Portland Phoenix and Worcester Magazine each finished first in three categories, while the Hartford Advocate and the Providence Phoenix each took home one first-place award.
New England Press Association |
02-11-2008 8:50 am |
Honors & Achievements
Cops: Alt-Weekly Film Reviewer Tried to Meet Underage Girl for Sexnew
John Boonstra, a 54-year-old film reviewer for the Hartford Advocate, had arranged a meeting with what he thought was an underage girl on Friday, police tell the Courant. Instead, he found the officers who had been posing as the girl online and was arrested. Boonstra was charged with criminal attempt at risk of injury to a minor and criminal attempt at second-degree sexual assault, although police say additional charges related to the incident are expected.
Hartford Courant |
05-09-2007 8:02 am |
Industry News
Tags: Management, Hartford Advocate
'Obscene' Ad Refused by Dailies Runs in Alt-Weeklynew
The Hartford New Haven Advocate ran an ad (pictured) last week that was rejected by the New York Times and the New Haven Register because it portrayed a nude figure, the Yale Daily News reports. The ad, for the Yale Repertory Theatre's production of Lulu, featured a photograph of a woman's bare torso with an apple obscuring her pubic area. (The Hartford Courant reproduced a copy of the image for a story it ran after the Times and Register rejected the ad. The Courant, like the New Haven Advocate, is owned by the Tribune Co.) The theater's associate marketing director says that few have raised objections to the ad other than the daily papers.
Yale Daily News |
03-28-2007 2:35 pm |
Industry News
Former Hartford Advocate Writer's FOI Battle Nearing Resolutionnew
Hartford Advocate |
05-01-2006 12:58 pm |
Industry News
Tags: Editorial, Hartford Advocate
Advocate Faces No Listings Competition
01-12-2005 10:25 am |
Letters to the Editor
Tags: Editorial, Hartford Advocate
The Listings Calendar: Alts' Mainstay Faces Stiff Competition
Hartford Advocate Editor Alistair Highet calls the listings calendar his paper's "universal point of interest." The calendar is -- and long has been -- indispensable for most alt-weeklies, attracting readers who don't necessarily agree with a paper's perceived political stance. But the marketplace is increasingly crowded with online and print publications listing concerts and theater times. Freelance reporter Charlie Deitch speaks with AAN members to find out what they're doing to fend off competitors' attempts to infringe on the alts' longtime stronghold.
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Charlie Deitch |
01-05-2005 12:29 pm |
Industry News
Hartford Advocate Staffer Dies in Car Crashnew
India Blue (pictured), 48, was a staff
photographer
and music writer at the alt-weekly since 1995.
According to the Hartford Courant, she was a
single
mother with two college-age sons who "was
very active in prison outreach and regularly
visited inmates in Niantic." Advocate Publisher Janet
Reynolds says, "She was a great woman
and a great employee."
Hartford Courant |
11-18-2003 10:59 am |
Industry News
Tags: Hartford Advocate
Reynolds, Sutcliffe Named Group Publishers
New Mass Media memo |
12-13-2002 12:33 pm |
Press Releases
