Another 100 Gone in Hartford

Sad but not surprised to see another 100 let go at the Hartford Courant, the oldest continuously publishing newspaper in the country at 254 years old. This once-proud newspaper is the Northeast beachhead of the Tribune Corp., which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 

I remember interviewing for a job there back in the day. The editor  spoke with was partcularly proud because they could lay claim to be the “first newspaper published in space.”  They had sent a fax of the top headlines to the crew in the space shuttle. 

Among the 100 let go are 30 in the newsroom, which has seen its staff cut in half in less than a year. As I’ve written before, ten years ago the Courant could have saved itself and Times Mirror in the process.