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About The New Haven Independent
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New Haven. Its neighborhoods. Its government. Its people – from the knuckleheads to the dreamers and schemers, and everyone in between.
That’s what this web site is about: A five-day-a-week report on news about the City of New Haven, Connecticut, produced by veteran local journalists, and by you.
The New Haven Independent is rooted in and devoted to the city. We believe that democracy starts at home, with smart, thorough, in-depth local news reporting and broad citizen debate about local issues. Thanks to the Internet, journalists and news-deprived citizens need no longer be hostages to out-of-state media conglomerates. We can reclaim our communities. Power of the press now belongs not to those who own one, but to those who own a modem.
We own a modem.
(Update:) Or we used to own a modem. You don’t even need a modem anymore.
The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality “stand-alone” and “hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet. Our main financial sponsors are listed on the right-hand column of the homepage and most inside pages. This site relies on three sources of revenue: grants from foundations to support specific areas of reporting, such as health care, similar to the way that National Public Radio obtains charitable grants to support independent reporting; general ongoing sponsorship grants from institutions; and donations from readers. The reporting on this site is, as the name says, “independent.” All financial contributions to the site come with the understanding that contributors will not determine (or have any responsibility for) the articles produced on the site. (Feel free to contact us with further questions about the site’s financial support.)
The New Haven Independent features daily reports and diverse public discussion about news about New Haven neighborhoods, government, politics, criminal justice, schools, business, arts and culture. It links readers to other websites with information about New Haven.
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Read About The Independent In The News
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide — New England First Amendment Center, May 16, 2011.
Sharing Ideas For School Success — The Hartford Courant, Dec. 2, 2010.
A multitasking, multimedia journalist — Media Nation, May 19, 2010.
Future of news lies in the grassroots — The (UK) Guardian, March 16, 2010.
Erasing barriers: new media, and new democracy — The Yale Herald, Sept. 30, 2011
Non-Profit ‘Independent’ Raises the Bar in New Haven — Street Fight, Jan. 18, 2012
New Haven’s Paul Bass Tells of Flowering of Independent News Websites — Sustainable Journalism.org, Feb. 18, 2010.
It Won’t Line a Bird Cage, but It’s Still News — The New York Times, Feb. 18, 2010.
The Girlfriends Of Raymond Clark — Slate, Sept. 23, 2009.
Made in India, but Published in New Haven — New York Times, May 31, 2009.
The Facebook Conundrum: The New Haven Independent and the Annie Le Murder — Knight Case Studies Initiative, Columbia Journalism School.
A Nonprofit Panacea For Newspapers? — National Public Radio, Feb. 6, 2009.
Death and Life in the Pressroom— Governing Magazine, January 2009.
When the Watchdogs Don’t Bark — New York Times editorial, December 30, 2008.
Web Sites That Dig for News Rise as Watchdogs — The New York Times, Nov. 18, 2008.
Online Journalists Keep Local Reporting Alive — The Walter Duranty Report, Nov. 10, 2008.
Blackout: Big-city newspapers aren’t telling citizens the things they need to know — Governing Magazine, December 2006.
Roundtable: The Return of Local News — Governing Magazine, December 2006.
The New Haven Independent: Community-dedicated, hyperlocal, online reporting — The Editors Weblog, Nov. 20, 2006.
No Printing Press Required — Associated Press, Aug. 9, 2006.
Liberation! On Creating the New Haven Independent — PressThink, Aug. 8, 2006
A Virtual Declaration of Independent — Business New Haven, June 12, 2006.
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