Stand Up For Your Rights
Dear Friends,Today, the Institute for Nonprofit News joins journalists across the country in asking you, the public, to stand up for your rights to free speech and an open government.
View ArticleNews From The Compost Heap
A whole lot’s been going on in New Haven.But for some reason ... there are temporarily no news stories found on the Independent’s assignment desk.
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I Think I’ll Ride A ... Coors Light
The city’s bike share program has a new advertiser: Coors Light.
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New Haven Biz Launches Magazine
The New Haven business community is leaping off the Internet and back onto the printed page.
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Here’s A Fake News Rx
Starting today, you can join a nationwide campaign to combat fake news by supporting real news where it counts most — at home. And have your contribution matched dollar for dollar.
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Here’s A Fake News Rx
Starting today, you can join a nationwide campaign to combat fake news by supporting real news where it counts most — at home. And have your contribution matched dollar for dollar.
View ArticleComments Commented Upon
New Haven Independent readers have gone deep this week in debates in the comments section attached to stories on school suspensions, marijuana legalization, and hotel unionization, among other...
View ArticlePaywall Nation
Might a new business model be in the offing to spawn the next generation of quality local news organizations?
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Break Up The Broadcast Plutocracy
(Opinion) — There are only two ways of awarding federal broadcast licenses — to diversify ownership of the news media or to concentrate it. The public interest is to diversify ownership and thus power,...
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An Invitation To Support Hamden Local News Reporting
Hamden is becoming a “news desert.” So much important news is happening in the town; so little of it is covered.I’m inviting you to help change that, gradually.
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An Invitation To Support Hamden Local News Reporting
Hamden is becoming a “news desert.” So much important news is happening in the town; so little of it is covered.I’m inviting you to help change that, gradually.
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On The Record
Students revealed what it’s like when their parents need to bring them along to work. So did their principal — who had similar experiences when she was a student in the same school back in the day.
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Police Poet Puts Down Pen
Officer David Hartman — a public face of New Haven’s police department since 2011 — retired Friday after a quarter century in uniform and seven years of elevating law enforcement’s literary standard.
View ArticleWQUN AM To Close
Quinnipiac University plans to shut down its two-decade-old community radio station in June.
View ArticlePorno Bookie Den Revealed In Historical Society Basement!
Susan Campbell wants you know better than to believe the above headline.
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Harp Goes On The (East Rock) Record
When a reporter for the East Rock Record asked Mayor Toni Harp her thoughts on the anti-vaxxer movement, he got more than a policy answer — he learned about her own childhood, when she battled polio.
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Cedar Hill Resident RIP
Rebecca Turcio, who championed the cause of one of New Haven’s littlest-noticed neighborhoods and emerged as one of the first and most passionate humane local grassroots voices of the Internet Age,...
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“Scoop” Tossed An Award
The Society for Advancing Business Editing & Writing has recognized New Haven Independent reporter Christopher Peak for getting the “scoop” on municipal debt.
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Foreign Correspondent Taps “Crazy Vibe”
Tzipi Shmilovitz noticed something about how people in the U.S. think about the war their government has waged for decades: They don’t.
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