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Carole Bass |
Feb 29, 2024 11:50 am
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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.
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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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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Karen Ponzio |
Jun 5, 2023 8:58 am
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This past weekend saw 88.7 FMWNHU, 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.
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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Laura Glesby |
Nov 28, 2022 3:00 pm
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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.
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.
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Kimberly Wipfler |
May 16, 2022 12:01 pm
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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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Thomas Breen |
Jan 27, 2022 2:37 pm
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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.
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 WNHHFM.
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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Allan Appel |
Apr 14, 2021 4:28 pm
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“According to police spokesperson Officer Scott Shumway …”
Get ready to read that a lot in local news stories: Shumway has been tapped as the new public information officer (PIO) for the police department. He starts the post Monday, replacing Capt. Anthony Duff, who retired Wednesday.