After getting egg all over their faces, the management of The Courant scrambled Monday to get something in the paper about Sleepy’s so they could prove they weren’t protecting one of their biggest advertisers. In…
PATRICK SANDERS Associated Press Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Less than a year after Tribune Co. launched an innovative plan to combine the newsrooms of The Hartford Courant and a local TV station, a columnist…
August 18, 2009 Losing Job, Consumer Columnist Cries Foul By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD The Hartford Courant and its former consumer columnist, George Gombossy, agree on one thing: that Mr. Gombossy was laid off this month. But…
Official statement from George Gombossy Editor & Publisher of CtWatchdog.com I surrendered my Hartford Courant press badge to my editors Aug. 14, ending four decades of employment at the nation’s oldest continuously published newspaper. The…
Statement on the firing of Connecticut columnist George Gombossy From: Board of Directors, National Society of Newspaper Columnists Release: Immediately For information, contact Ben S. Pollock; secretary, National Society of Newspaper Columnists, ben.pollock@stanfordalumni.org, (479) 236-6302The board…
Dear Naedine Hazell and Jeff Levine, As an occasional reader of the Hartford Courant, I read with painful amusement your shamefully disingenuous staff memo “explaining” why you fired George Gombossy and pulled his consumer protection…
My four-decade-long career at The Courant ended Friday as I was fired for doing my job – being the advocate for consumers. My career began in June 1969 as a reporter in the Willimantic bureau and…