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Hearst CT reporters celebrate election results Thursday at Two Roads in Stratford.
(Updated) New Haven Register reporters and their Hearst colleagues from across Connecticut have voted to form a union, and are now seeking to negotiate a contract with their newspaper-chain employer.
by | Apr 29, 2025 12:00 pm | Comments (5)
The Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) has chosen New Haven Independent reporters for 11 awards for stories reported in 2024.
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Does the Annex need another one of these?
Attorney Herbst: This complies with local zoning.
A desolate, industrial stretch of land in the Annex is now the site of a billboard dispute — as two neighboring property owners jockey for position to determine who will get to show ads to highway drivers.
by | Apr 1, 2025 2:12 pm | Comments (0)
Merch with linocut printing by The Cosmic Tea.
HiGH asf* zines by Elizabeth D'Andrea.
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Multi-genre arts event
770 Chapel St.
March 30, 2025
What is protest art? What is political art?
Since the dawn of state-regulated “artivism,” artists have felt the pressures of society to either opt in to the whole label — use the right keywords on applications, categorize themselves neatly for gatekeepers and audience members, and perhaps be taken less seriously by those who espouse the ideals of “pure art” — or attempt to stay out of politics, an impossible task for someone whose existence is inherently political.
On Sunday afternoon at 770 Chapel St., artists and art-lovers alike simply chose a secret third approach.
by | Mar 28, 2025 5:36 pm | Comments (0)
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Faith Marek has a secret.
It would be uncouth for me to tell you what two movies I saw Thursday night at the monthly gathering of Best Video’s Secret Music Documentary Society.
The group is secret, after all. Their policy is that you can’t ask about previous titles; if you miss a screening, you have to live knowing you may never find out what the group watched in your absence. What happened there was a secret.
Thursday night’s gathering was the latest edition of the monthly society, which Faith Marek and Gorman Bechard founded this January to share unreleased, suppressed, or otherwise underground documentaries about the musicians we know and love. The group meets on the fourth Thursday of every month (except next month’s meeting, which is on Wednesday, April 23) to screen secret films and discuss secret thoughts over pizza and beer. (You can check Best Video’s event calendar for updates.)
Without mentioning any film titles or main characters, I’ll tell you what I can about the sights and sounds of the films playing Thursday evening. The first short film of the night was “compelling, even though it was Barbies,” according to audience member Jeremy Hudson.
by | Jan 15, 2025 4:02 pm | Comments (0)
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Anne Tubis, typo-catcher extraordinaire.
Anne Tubis is the winningest typo catcher in New Haven Independent history — all 19 years of it. Now, she’s done it again.
by | Dec 13, 2024 11:42 am | Comments (2)
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DETROIT — A crowd in suits and gowns (pictured above) mingled below arched windows, 27,000-pound cast-iron chandeliers, and a 54-foot-high Guastavino tile-vaulted ceiling, atop “original Tennessee rose-colored marble” floors, to celebrate the rescue of an architectural marvel — and a new day for their city.
by | Nov 27, 2024 2:00 pm | Comments (4)
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The Independent's Tom Breen and Register's Mark Zaretsky consider what to ask officials at a traffic-camera press conference.
As the holiday season annual donation season arrives, please consider helping to keep nonprofit public-interest news reporting alive in New Haven — and see your generosity matched dollar for dollar.
Continue reading ‘Holiday Giving Season Rec: Keep Local News Alive’
by | Aug 22, 2024 7:58 pm | Comments (1)
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DNC-invited digital whizzes at work at third-floor arena lounge.
Chicago — Legendary presidential campaign journalists Theodore H. White and Hunter S. Thompson didn’t live to cover the 2024 Democratic National Convention here. If they had, they might have found their bylines buried by a digital whiz called TizzyEnt who started building his seven-plus-million-strong audience with beer jokes and lip-synching videos.
TizzyEnt — aka central Floridian Michael McWhorter — is one of 200 “content creators” with a prime spot covering the convention at Chicago’s United Center.
Continue reading ‘"Content Creators" Crash Convention, Supplant "The Press"’
by | Aug 8, 2024 7:51 pm | Comments (14)
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Hearst reporters (and New Haven residents) Brian Zahn and John Moritz bring pizza to their union-hopeful colleagues at the news chain's Meriden office Thursday.
New Haven Register reporters and their Hearst newspaper chain colleagues across Connecticut have moved to form a union — to gain a “seat at the table” for workplace negotiations around pay, in-person office policies, and how artificial intelligence is used in the news.
by | Aug 8, 2024 10:43 am | Comments (9)
Lupe Fiasco explains how AI & hip hop can be friends.
At a conference on culturally relevant pedagogy, New Haven educators learned that with the help of artificial intelligence (AI), students don’t have to just settle for the word “hamburger” in their essays.
Instead, they can write that “cheeseburgers are like a symphony of flavors with each ingredient representing a note in a complex harmony that dances across the tongue.”
They can lean in to such elaborate wordplay with the help of a wordsmithing AI-powered tool called TextFX.
by | Aug 7, 2024 12:36 pm | Comments (3)
“Pro consumer. Pro competition. Pro innovation.”
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal used those words to herald a federal judge’s ruling from earlier this week that Google is a “monopolist” that has acted illegally to protect the market power of its online search engine.
by | Jul 5, 2024 9:34 am | Comments (2)
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UNH film student Elisa Broche (second from right) with her family in Honduras.
Elisa Broche won’t be at Saturday’s premiere of her new documentary about Newhallville community activist Marcus Harvin at the University of New Haven.
That’s because the 19-year-old student filmmaker is back in her home city of Tegucigalpa, Honduras — doing everything she can to raise enough money to return to West Haven to complete her studies.
Continue reading ‘Movie To Premiere In Student Filmmaker's Absence’
by | Jul 1, 2024 4:50 pm | Comments (1)
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The Lamberton encampment, cleared by the state.
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Math teacher Charity Ann Chambers helps students "embrace mistakes."
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August 2023 anti-eviction rally.
Independent reporters placed first in five hyperlocal 2023 Mark of Excellence reporting categories: Breaking News, Continuing Coverage, Education, Government, and Reporting Series.
Continue reading ‘Indy Wins Prizes For Education, Evictions Coverage’
by | Jun 20, 2024 9:16 am | Comments (5)
Author Brill (at right): "If we understand how truth has been so eviscerated, we can see how to restore it."
The Death Of Truth: How Social Media and the Internet Gave Snake Oil Salesmen and Demagogues the Weapons They Needed To Destroy Trust and Polarize the World — And What We Can Do About It
By Steven Brill
Alfred A. Knopf
Villains abound in Steven Brill’s new call to arms to rescue truth from internet disinformation agents and “pink slime” peddlers. My favorite villain is a piece of legislation.
by | Apr 22, 2024 12:10 pm | Comments (5)
No word yet on the cheesesteaks: Grace-Flood.
You can still read what Nora Grace-Flood is finding out — now from Philadelphia rather than New Haven.
by | Apr 5, 2024 9:45 am | Comments (23)
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100 Gando Dr.
The New Haven Register is on the move — to Meriden.
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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’
by | Jan 8, 2024 4:07 pm | Comments (1)
Goodwillie and Mitts.
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.
by | Nov 22, 2023 10:48 am | Comments (0)
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.
Continue reading ‘Here's A Chance To Keep Local News Chugging’
by | Nov 16, 2023 5:18 pm | Comments (1)
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Tzippy Shmilovitz.
The 5,591 miles separating New Haven and Tel Aviv got a lot farther since Oct. 7 for Tzippy Shmilovitz.
Continue reading ‘Israeli Correspondent Navigates Fears, Hope’
by | Nov 6, 2023 8:42 am | Comments (0)
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Professor Schmidt with Edward Dunar, head of Albertus's Eckhart Center.
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.
Continue reading ‘God & The Internet Meet At Albertus Magnus’
by | Jun 5, 2023 8:58 am | Comments (3)
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WNHU's Jess Finn, Bruce Barber, and J.J. Dionisio.
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.
by | May 8, 2023 1:28 pm | Comments (12)
From the home page of "Holding Me Captive."
Journalism professor Sarah Stillman and criminal justice reform activist James Jeter.
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.
by | Apr 4, 2023 4:26 pm | Comments (1)
New Havener makes good: Award-winning NYT mag writer Jazmine Hughes.
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WSJ's Evan Gershkovich.
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.
Continue reading ‘Rising Star Focuses On Journo Pal's Arrest’