The New Haven Register
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The New Haven Register is a Connecticut newspaper based out of New Haven, Connecticut. It is the second largest newspaper in Connecticut, behind only The Hartford Courant. It is owned by Journal Register Company based out of Trenton, New Jersey.
It was established around 1812, making it one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the U.S.
Background
The New Haven Register, with about 25 reporters (not including sports, entertainment, and lifestyle reporters, and correspondents), covers 21 municipalities within New Haven County (it also has a reporter each in Washington, D.C. and Hartford).The paper's Sunday circulation is about 90,000–95,000. On weekdays approximately 66,000–70,000 copies are sold. Its main daily competitors are the Connecticut Post, located in Bridgeport, which competes for coverage of Stratford and Milford, and towns in the Naugatuck valley: Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Beacon Falls, Naugatuck, Bethany, Oxford, and Seymour) and the Waterbury Republican-American (located in Waterbury and competing for coverage of Naugatuck Valley towns as well). The Republican-American recently (late 2005) expanded with a Valley Bureau, headed by a former Register Valley bureau chief.
The paper's staff was reduced in the 1990s, as were the newsrooms of most papers in the U.S. Most reductions were by attrition. This has affected the Register's ability to aggressively cover stories; however, the sports department has been selected as one of the top 10 in the nation twice in three years.
The current (March 2006) Editor-in-Chief of the New Haven Register is Jack Kramer, and its publisher is Kevin Walsh. The editorial lean of the Register is generally to the left.
Competing newspapers
The competition the Register faces from the Connecticut Post (or, as some still call it, the Bridgeport Post) is somewhat more serious.The differences between the Register, the Republican-American, and the Post are marginal at best - no paper really rivals one another, except in terms of design and circulation. National (and sometimes statewide), and international issues are covered by the Associated Press, which sells its wire copy to each paper. Columnists such as Bill O'Reilly and Robert Novak may appear in the Register, they are however nationally syndicated, and the columns do not specifically reflect issues in New Haven, or even Connecticut. Using copy from the Associated Press, Reuters (another newswire service) or publishing work by syndicated columnists is standard practice among small and medium-sized daily newspapers.
The Register also competes locally with the New Haven Advocate, a weekly alternative publication. Given that the Advocate is not published daily, it does not compete with the Register for breaking news, and the papers are vastly different. The Advocate, however, often criticizes the Register's editorial policies: In late 2005, Advocate columnist Tom Gogola noticed Register editor Dave McClendon copied a press release (printing it almost word for word, and putting his name on it), and lambasted the Reg (the Adovcate's pet name for the Register) for allowing such a journalistic atrocity.
Despite being the "underdog," the Advocate is part of the powerful newspaper chain, the Tribune Company, which owns such papers as New York Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Hartford Courant.
Another "paper" exists in New Haven, the web-based New Haven Independent, which is a low-budget web-based blog.
Coverage
Some recent (March 2006) issues covered by the Register include New Haven Mayor John DeStefano's gubernatorial bid; an abnormally large egg in Bethany discovered by a Muslim family; the striking Sikorsky workers; the arrests of Westbrook First Selectman John A. Raffa on larceny and coercion charges; the trial of former representative and state senator Ernie Newton on corruption charges; and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's gift of low-cost heating oil to low-income Connecticut residents.Ownership
The Register is owned by the Journal Register Company, a small-time newspaper chain that owns hundreds of papers in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. The Register is the "flagship" paper of the Journal Register Company - the supposed best, largest, and most popular newspaper owned by the company. In Connecticut, the Journal Register Company owns not only the Register, but also the New Britain Herald, the Middletown Press, the Bristol Press, and the Torrington Register-Citizen. JRC also owns weekly papers in Connecticut: the Guilford Shoreline Times, the Old Saybrook Pictorial Gazette, the New London Dolphin, the Branford Review, the Clinton Recorder, the Colchester Regional Standard, the Milford Weekly, the Hamden Chronicle, the Shelton Weekly, the Stratford Bard, the Orange Bulletin, the East Haven Advertiser, the West Haven News, the Wallingford Voice, the East Hartford Gazette, the Thomaston Express, the West Hartford News, the Wethersfield Chronicle, the Newington Town Crier, the Windsor Journal, the Rocky Hill Post, the Bloomfield Journal, the Windsor Locks Journal, the Avon Courier, the Farmington Post, the Simsbury Post, the Tri-Town Post, and Connecticut Magazine.In total, JRC owns 27 daily, and 327 weekly newspapers throughough the aforementioned states. The company claims that through its publications, it reaches 7.4 million households in a coverage area of 19 million.
Location
The Register's main office is located at 40 Sargent Drive in New Haven. It has bureaus located in Ansonia, Milford and Old Saybrook, along with a single reporter in Hartford, Washington, D.C. and Wallingford.External links
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