Connecticut Post
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| Connecticut Post | |
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 The December 22, 2006 front page of the Connecticut Post |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | MediaNews Group |
| Publisher | Robert Laska |
| Editor | James H. Smith |
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| Headquarters | 410 State Street, Bridgeport, Connecticut 06604 USA |
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| Website: www.connpost.com | |
The Connecticut Post is a daily newspaper, serving southwestern Connecticut, around and including Bridgeport. Some of the towns in the Post's circulation area include Derby, Easton, Fairfield, Milford, Monroe, Oxford, Redding, Seymour, Shelton, Stratford, Trumbull and Westport.
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The paper has a weekday circulation of 85,168, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation[1], behind the Hartford Courant (264,539) and the New Haven Register (89,022). The paper competes directly with the Register in Stratford, Milford, Derby and Shelton.
The publisher is Robert Laska and the editor-in-chief is James H. Smith. Smith has attempted to take the paper in a different direction, stressing slice-of-life style features and downplaying court/police coverage.
The Post's coverage area presents problems as Bridgeport, Connecticut's largest city, is a poor and mostly minority area, while the surrounding eastern Fairfield County and western New Haven County area is affluent and mostly white. Consequently, while the Post does provide solid coverage of Bridgeport, most of the paper is composed of local stories regarding the surrounding towns.
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The newspaper was formerly the morning Bridgeport Telegram and evening Bridgeport Post before consolidating into a morning publication. The Bridgeport Telegram [2] ran from at least 1908 to 1929 and again from 1938 to 1990. [3]
The Post was formerly owned by Thomson Corporation, a national newspaper chain. In 2000, Thomson agreed to sell the Post for $205 million to MediaNews Group, based in Denver, Colorado, which also owns newspapers in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.[4]
Some significant stories the Post has broken include Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim's bribery scandal and current Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi's admission of using cocaine.
In 2008, the Connecticut Post received the Newspaper of the Year Award from the New England Newspaper Association.[5]
Comedian and actor Richard Belzer, a Bridgeport native, was a paperboy and later a staff reporter for the Post, before pursuing his career as an entertainer.[6].
[edit] References
- ^ "Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation". Audit Bureau of Circulation (2006). Retrieved on December 1, 2006.
- ^ "Bridgeport Papers Sold. Flicker and Whitman Get Telegram and Evening and Sunday Post.", New York Times, December 20, 1918, Friday. Retrieved on 2007-09-25.
- ^ Bridgeport Telegram. Bridgeport Library. Retrieved on 2007-09-25.
- ^ Gatlin, Greg. "MediaNews Drops Bid." Boston Herald, August 9, 2000.
- ^ Post wins Newspaper of the Year, Connecticut Post, March 16, 2008
- ^ "'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' Bios". NBC Television (2006). Retrieved on December 2, 2006.
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