| New Haven Register | |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
| Format | Broadsheet |
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| Owner | Journal Register Company |
| Publisher | Kevin F. Walsh |
| Editor | Jack Kramer |
| Founded | 1812 |
| Headquarters | 40 Sargent Dr. New Haven, Connecticut 06511  United States |
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| Website: nhregister.com | |
The New Haven Register is a daily newspaper published in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the second largest newspaper in Connecticut, behind The Hartford Courant. It is owned by the Journal Register Company in Yardley, Pennsylvania.
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History
The Register was established about 1812 and is one of the oldest continuously published newspapers in the U.S. In the early 20th century it was bought by John Day Jackson. The Jackson family owned the Register, published weekday evenings and Saturday and Sunday mornings, and The Journal-Courier, a morning weekday paper, until they were combined in 1987 into a seven-day morning Register. John Day Jackson passed control of the papers to his sons, Richard and Lionel Jackson, then to Lionel's son, Lionel "Stewart" Jackson Jr. The paper was sold to Mark Goodson, the television producer, then to a company headed by Ralph Ingersoll before being sold to the company now known as Journal Register Company. The Register underwent both a newsroom union decertification and a suit brought by women newsroom employees, both successful, in the late 1970s and 1980s. It enjoyed its highest circulation, peaking at more than 100,000, in the mid-1980s.
Background
The Register covers 19 towns and cities within New Haven and Middlesex counties, including New Haven. The newspaper also has one reporter in Hartford, the state capital, who covers state politics. The paper has a weekday circulation of 89,022, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation[1]. It is has the second-highest circulation in the state, after the Hartford Courant (264,539) and ahead of the Connecticut Post (85,168). Its main daily competitors are the Post, located in Bridgeport, which covers Stratford, Milford, and the lower Naugatuck Valley (Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Beacon Falls, Naugatuck, Bethany, Oxford, and Seymour) and the Waterbury Republican-American, which covers Greater Waterbury, Litchfield, and the Naugatuck Valley. The editor of the New Haven Register is Jack Kramer, and its publisher is Kevin Walsh. Mark Brackenbury is the managing editor and Helen Bennett Harvey is the state and city editor.
Coverage
Some recent (August 2006) issues covered by the Register include New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr.'s gubernatorial bid; Joe Lieberman vs. Ned Lamont; the NewAlliance Bank stock scandal; and controversies surrounding Milford Superintendent of schools Gregory Firn and Westbrook First Selectman John Raffa.
Ownership
The Register is owned by the Journal Register Company, a newspaper chain based in Yardley, Pennsylvania (it moved from Trenton, New Jersey, in 2006), that owns daily and weekly newspapers in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The Journal Register Company also owns Connecticut Magazine. In total, JRC owns 27 daily and 327 weekly newspapers. The company 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. The Register has a reporter covering state government in Hartford. The Register once had several bureaus in Wallingford, Branford, Shelton and Milford, but all have since been closed, and the publication is now entirely run from the New Haven office. The Register building in Milford also housed several weeklies owned by the Journal Register Company.
Notes
- ^ "Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation". Audit Bureau of Circulation (2006). Retrieved on December 1, 2006.
