The ''New Haven Register'' is a daily
newspaper
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published in
New Haven, Connecticut
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. It is owned by
Hearst Communications. The Register's main office is located at 100 Gando Drive in
New Haven
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. 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.''
The Register covers 19 towns and cities within
New Haven
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and
Middlesex
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counties, including New Haven. The newspaper also had one reporter in
Hartford
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, the state capital, who covered state politics, but as of March 2008 removed that reporter, leaving New Haven's major daily without day-to-day coverage of state offices and the
General Assembly. In order to fill that void, the paper signed a deal with CTNewsJunkie.com to provide coverage of the Connecticut state government.
History
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
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, the television producer, then to a company headed by Ralph Ingersoll before being sold to the company recently known as
Journal Register Company. After repeated bankruptcy filings, the paper was sold to
Hearst Newspapers in 2017 by JRC successor
Digital First Media
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.
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.
On February 21, 2009, the Journal Register Company and twenty-six (26) of its affiliates (including the ''Register''), filed for
Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. It has since emerged as part of
Digital First Media
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.
On March 4, 2012, the ''Register'' closed its printing operation and sourced printing of the newspaper to the ''
Hartford Courant''.
On September 20, 2014, the ''Register'' officially relocated its headquarters closer to the
North Haven, Connecticut
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, city line. The former ''Register'' building was renovated and became a
Jordan's Furniture.
In 2017, the paper was sold to Hearst.
Newsroom
The group publisher of Hearst publications in Connecticut is Mike Deluca.
Competitors
As of 2015, the paper had a weekday circulation of 64,210, the second largest in the state after the ''
Hartford Courant''.
Its main daily competitors are new Hearst stablemate the ''
Post
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'', located in
Bridgeport, which covers
Stratford,
Milford, and portions of the lower
Naugatuck Valley (
Ansonia,
Derby
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,
Oxford
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,
Seymour, and
Shelton), and the ''
Waterbury Republican-American'', which covers Greater
Waterbury
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,
Litchfield County, and the
Naugatuck Valley.
The ''Register'' also shares part of its circulation area with
Elm City Newspapers, a chain of
weekly newspaper
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s which also share an owner and a New Haven headquarters building with the ''Register''.
See also
*
List of newspapers in Connecticut
This is a list of newspapers in Connecticut.
Daily newspapers (currently published)
:''This is a list of daily newspapers currently published in Connecticut. For weekly and university newspapers, see List of newspapers in Connecticut''.
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References
External links
''New Haven Register'' Website
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Mass media in New Haven, Connecticut
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Mass media in New Haven County, Connecticut