Category: About Our Stories
Why it was important to see the Milford Crash
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on November 18th, 2009 at 02:19:17 pm, 5394 views
This morning's email brought a handful of messages from viewers who found it troubling that we would choose to show the footage from the dashboard camera inside a Milford PD cruiser, which documented the horrible crash from this past June that claimed two teenager's lives. more »
Time for media to talk back
Posted by Lisa DiVirgilio, Online Content Producer on October 6th, 2009 at 10:37:10 am, 1830 views
Working in an era of news where print text no longer cuts it and people can't make an appointment to always watch the broadcast at a certain time of day, we as journalists depend heavily on new "breaking news" alerts sent through venues such as Facebook… more »
Naming Names
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on September 16th, 2009 at 07:58:34 pm, 1920 views
It has been over a week now into the coverage of the homicide investigation of Annie Le, the Yale graduate student who went missing and then ultimately whose body was found in a basement wall of the Yale research lab building where she worked.The sto… more »
Remembering Cronkite
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on July 17th, 2009 at 10:42:40 pm, 3725 views
On this Friday night, we have gotten word that Walter Cronkite has passed away at age 92.There will be countless tributes to the man and his remarkable career as the anchorman of "The CBS Evening News" from 1962 to 1981. Not just because he is the c… more »
What do you report, when you are asked not to report?
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on July 9th, 2009 at 01:36:51 am, 1757 views
Tuesday’s kidnapping and hostage standoff in South Windsor, led to an ethical dilemma inside our newsroom through the afternoon. How do we handle covering a story--where the police have specifically asked us not to broadcast the same story?This stor… more »
ABC News's "Prescription for America": Informative or Infomercial?
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on June 25th, 2009 at 12:55:38 am, 1260 views
As my colleague Jeff Bailey noted in an earlier post here, we were expecting some people to exercise their constitutional rights tonight and protest airing of the ABC News special "Prescription for America" that was broadcast from 10 to 11pm (and continu… more »
After The Big DTV Switch
Posted by Kirk Varner, News Director on June 15th, 2009 at 03:48:41 pm, 1890 views
After spending years, and we're serious about that timeframe-it's been since 1998 that WTNH-DT signed on the air as the state's first digital television station-we've been waiting on the day that finally passed last Friday. That was when the Channel 8 t… more »
Photo of Wesleyan shooting suspect
Posted by Jeff Bailey, Executive Producer on May 7th, 2009 at 12:20:24 pm, 2773 views
We're all saddened over the tragic events at Wesleyan University and the shooting death of Johanna Justin-Jinich. As police search for their suspect, identified as Stephen Morgan, a number of local and national news organizations, including News Channel… more »
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