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Crime Scene Team Draws Viewers, Critics
The acrid stench of burning drywall wafted in through the open driver’s window as Justin Shipchack navigated his sedan into a parking spot.
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Please Help Keep Nonprofit News Going
Sunday begins an annual fundraising drive for nonprofit online local public-interest news outlets — including the New Haven Independent and Valley Independent Sentinel.
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3 Veteran Register Reporters Take Buy-Outs
More than a century’s worth of knowledge about the city is exiting the New Haven Register newsroom, as three top reporters are taking buyouts.
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Pandemic Politics-Beat Switch Made Permanent
The state politics baton has passed for good at New Haven’s WTNH.
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The Council Chamber Beckoned
I was supposed to spend a few months watching elected officials fight every other Monday night. Spring would come, and I would run off to the circus, quite literally.
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Alders Honor Mary O’Leary
On Monday night, the Board of Alders awarded veteran New Haven Register reporter Mary O’Leary an official citation in honor of her five decades of local reporting and on her retirement. Below is a...
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Gov’t-Watchers Zoom In On Zoomocracy
Some local elected officials heard from their constituents more. They faced them less.So went the first year of “Zoomacracy,” the move of municipal public meetings online due to the Covid-19 pandemic,...
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Local GOP Moves To Gab To Grow
The Republican Town Committee has turned to a no-holds-barred corner of the web to try to grow its local membership.
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Aliyya Ascends
Aliyya Swaby, who covered New Haven schools for the Independent from 2014-2016, is gaining national attention for her groundbreaking work on the effect of the Covid-19 on public education in Texas.
View ArticleThe Mayor Un-friended Me
Jennifer Pope is co-founder of the Hamden Progressive Action Netowrk and a Democratic State Central Committee member. We asked Mayor Curt Leng to respond to the following opinion article before we...
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Kamala’s Day In New Haven: A Timeline
So. What exactly did Vice President Kamala Harris do and talk about on Friday when she visited New Haven and West Haven?
View ArticleNew Police PIO Appointed
“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...
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Mayor’s Spokesperson Moves On
Mayor Justin Elicker’s press spokesperson, Gage Frank, is leaving City Hall to take the same position with State Treasurer Shawn Wooden.
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A Parting Peek Through A Master’s Lens
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.
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“Long Agony Of Racism” Nets Journalism Award
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...
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Latina Returns To Changed Newsiverse
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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Annual “News Match” Begins: A Chance To Boost Nonprofit Local Reporting
An annual national fundraising event starting today enables donors to boost local news, and double their dollars in their process.
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Annual “News Match” Continues: A Chance To Boost Nonprofit Local Reporting
An annual national fundraising event is underway that enables donors to boost local news, and double their dollars in their process.
View ArticleJudge Rules For 1st Amendment
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...
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High Schoolers Crack The Code
Metropolitan Business Academy 11th-grader Neiel Ventura at DAE. High school junior Neiel Ventura took a chance on a new after-school computer science program in Fair Haven. Months later, Ventura has...
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