Grace-Flood Flees To Philly
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| Apr 22, 2024 12:10 pm |You can still read what Nora Grace-Flood is finding out — now from Philadelphia rather than New Haven.
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| Apr 22, 2024 12:10 pm |You can still read what Nora Grace-Flood is finding out — now from Philadelphia rather than New Haven.
The New Haven Register is on the move — to Meriden.
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| Feb 29, 2024 11:50 am |The life and work of Laurel Fox Vlock (pictured), a TV journalist who founded New Haven’s Holocaust video archives, will take center stage at an event Sunday. Hosted by the Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven, the event — the second annual Judith Ann Schiff Women’s History Program — begins at the New Haven Museum (114 Whitney Ave.) at 2 p.m. Click here for more details. Read on to learn how Vlock’s work broke new ground and resonates more than ever today.
Continue reading ‘How Laurel Vlock Documented The Unthinkable’
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| Jan 8, 2024 4:07 pm |Look, we publish a lot of stories. And we have a small staff. So we’re lucky to have readers like Hannah Goodwillie, who volunteer to let us know when we’ve made mistakes, even from nearly 1,000 miles away.
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| Nov 22, 2023 10:48 am |A new month brings a new chance to help keep nonprofit public-interest news reporting alive in New Haven — and see your generosity matched dollar for dollar.
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| Nov 16, 2023 5:18 pm |The 5,591 miles separating New Haven and Tel Aviv got a lot farther since Oct. 7 for Tzippy Shmilovitz.
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| Nov 6, 2023 8:42 am |Ever have a long email exchange end in a sudden stoppage? You send a heartfelt one and there is no answer. Nothing. Nada. An empty slot on the screen. Well, maybe that feeling of sudden absence after an enveloping “presence” of the Other might not be altogether unlike the way Adam and Eve felt when God cut off their account and expelled them from the Garden of Eden.
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| Jun 5, 2023 8:58 am |This past weekend saw 88.7 FM WNHU, the award-winning venerable radio station of the University of New Haven, kicking off a yearlong celebration of its 50th anniversary with three days of alumni events that included a banquet, panel discussions, on-air reunions, and a shared hopefulness about the future of college radio.
A local criminal justice reformer and a Yale journalism professor have teamed up to call attention to wrongful convictions in New Haven — and the systemic police patterns behind them — in a newly published online anthology of investigative reporting.
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| Apr 4, 2023 4:26 pm |In the space of half a day, Jazmine Hughes went from celebrating reaching a milestone in her dream career — to learning that a friend who had realized his dreams, too, was now locked in a Russian prison.
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| Mar 21, 2023 12:23 pm |You can help us fix this mess. Or we’ll do it ourselves.
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal sent that message to tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Twitter.
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| Jan 2, 2023 1:55 pm |The Independent corrected over 1,119 typos in 2022 — and those are just the ones identified by the year’s champion typo-catcher.
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| Dec 14, 2022 8:56 am |New Haven Independent schools reporting has been recognized as one of “the 9 most memorable K‑12 education stories of 2022” in the U.S.
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| Nov 28, 2022 3:00 pm |On “Small Business Saturday,” a stack of Michelle Obama’s latest books made its way from the shelf of New Haven’s newest local bookstore to the former First Lady’s Facebook page.
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| Nov 22, 2022 4:27 pm |As you engage in holiday season giving this year, please consider making a matchable tax-deductible contribution to help keep nonprofit public-interest news reporting going strong in New Haven.
New Haven Independent Managing Editor Tom Breen is stepping into the top editor role at the nonprofit online daily news outlet.
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| Aug 10, 2022 2:17 pm |New Haven police assigned their sharpest-eyed shooters to a new mission — and they came back with arresting images.
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| May 16, 2022 12:01 pm |High school junior Neiel Ventura took a chance on a new after-school computer science program in Fair Haven. Months later, Ventura has set her sights on a career goal in technology and has cultivated the skills to support it — and built her own website designed to sell sneakers.
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| Jan 27, 2022 2:37 pm |A federal judge handed down a ringing endorsement of the First Amendment and open courts in rejecting a bid by five local nonprofits controlled by imprisoned Rabbi Daniel Greer to keep their legal business secret.
When Barb Levine-Ritterman sees a stray comma or misspelled word in the New Haven Independent, it feels like a sliver of wood has slipped under the skin of a finger.
That makes us, and our readers, lucky.
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| Nov 30, 2021 8:37 am |When you donate to nonprofits you value this Giving Tuesday, please consider a contribution to the Online Journalism Project, which publishes the New Haven Independent and Valley Independent Sentinel and operates WNHH FM.
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| Nov 9, 2021 1:02 pm |An annual national fundraising event is underway that enables donors to boost local news, and double their dollars in their process.
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| Oct 29, 2021 9:12 am |The news moves fast – too fast — in the age of the 24 hour news cycle.
That’s one of the biggest takeaways that Jodi Latina has experienced since her return to WTNH after a ten-year stint in politics.
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| Oct 25, 2021 11:21 am |The hard-working crew at New Haven-based Yale Alumni Magazine captured a national award last week for “The Long Agony of Racism,” a cover package of stories exploring the issues raised by the police killing of George Floyd, published a month after his death.
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Peter Hvizdak was driving around the Hill when he noticed a boy seeking to do the same — behind the wheel of a car with no tires.
He knew he had to stop to get that photo.