The New Haven Register is a Connecticut newspaper based out of New Haven, Connecticut. It is the second largest newspaper in Connecticut, behind only The Hartford Courant. It is owned by Journal Register Company based out of Trenton, New Jersey. Official language(s) English Capital Hartford Largest city Bridgeport Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 48th 14,371 km² 113 km 177 km 12. ... Nickname: The Elm City Official website: www. ... The Hartford Courant is Connecticuts largest daily newspaper, and the only morning newspaper for most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury. ... The Journal Register Company NYSE: JRC is an American media company, specializing in newspaper publishing. ... Motto: Nickname: Map Political Statistics Founded c. ...

It was established around 1812. 1812 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ...

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Background The New Haven Register employs some 23 reporters (not including sports, entertainment, and lifestyle reporters, and correspondents) and sporadically covers 21 municipalities within New Haven County (it also has one reporter in both Washington, D.C., and the capitol, Hartford, respectively). The paper claims its Sunday circulation is 98,432, but it actually probably hovers around 50,00-70,000 and significantly lower on weekdays (claiming 94,000, probably 30,000-40,000). Its main daily competitors are the Connecticut Post(located in Bridgeport, which competes for coverage of Stratford and Milford, and towns in the Naugatuck valley: Ansonia, Derby, Shelton, Beacon Falls, Naugatuck, Bethany, Oxford, and Seymour) and the Waterbury Republican-American (located in Waterbury and competing for coverage of Naugatuck Valley towns as well). The Republican-American recently (late 2005) expanded with a Valley Bureau, headed by former Register Valley Bureau Chief Joanne Pelton.

The paper has felt a large reduction in staff in the past decade, due to layoffs and disgruntled editorial staff. This has directly affected its ability to cover stories, and thus leading to a reduction in circulation. Most recently, in January 2006, two veteran photographers were laid-off, and as recently as March 2006 one news reporter was asked to leave the Register and fill a vacancy at Play - the Register's weekly entertainment magazine, and "competitor" of the New Haven Advocate. The Republican-American's expansion into the Valley also struck at the Register, with the loss of Pelton, and another reporter choosing to leave voluntarily. Eight towns in the Valley are now covered by only one Bureau Chief, one reporter, and two correspondents; before the shake-up, it had three full-time reporters, and one correspondent. The paper chose not to fill the open full-time reporter position.

The current Valley Bureau Chief was plucked from the Register's main office in New Haven from her beat as federal court reporter. Her former beat has since been taken over by the Register's columnist, Randall Beach.

The current (March 2006) Editor-in-Chief of the New Haven Register is Jack Kramer, and its publisher is Kevin Walsh. The editorial lean of the Register is generally to the right, endorsing George W. Bush in the 2004 election, but sometimes nudges toward the left.

Competing Newspapers The competition the Register faces from the Connecticut Post (or, as some still call it, the Bridgeport Post) is somewhat more serious. Upon first glance, the Post appears to be more respectable and readable due to its up-to-date layout and design. The Register's outdated, however unique, design looks like, as some have said, " a pre-schooler let loose with crayons."

The differences between the Register, the Republican-American, and the Post are marginal at best - no paper really rivals one another, except in terms of design and circulation. National (and sometimes statewide), and international issues are covered by the Associated Press, which sells its wire copy to each paper. Columnists such as Bill O'Reilly and Robert Novak may appear in the Register, they are however nationally syndicated, and the columns do not specifically reflect issues in New Haven, or even Connecicut. Using copy from the Associated Press, Reuters (another newswire service) or publishing work by syndicated columnists is standard practice among small and medium-sized daily newspapers.

The Register also competes locally with the [New Haven Advocate], a weekly alternative publication. Given that the Advocate is not published daily, it does not compete with the Register for breaking news, and the papers are vastly different. The Advocate, however, often criticizes the Register's editorial policies: In late 2005, Advocate columnist Tom Gogola exposed Register editor Dave McClendon for plagurizing a press release (printing it almost word for word, and putting his name on it), and lambasted the Reg (the Adovcate's pet name for the Register) for allowing such a journalistic atrocity.

Despite being the "underdog," the Advocate is part of the powerful newspaper chain, the Tribune Company, which owns such papers as New York Newsday, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Hartford Courant.

Another "paper" exists in New Haven, the web-based New Haven Independent, which trumps both the Register and the Advocate in coverage of the city, and journalistic quality.

Coverage Despite its relatively close location to New York City (and the abundance of commuters from the New Haven area to New York), the Register chose not to send a reporter to cover the attacks of September 11, 2001. The Register also opted not to send a reporter to cover the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. It did, however, report heavily on the impact Katrina had on gasoline prices in the New Haven area, and charity efforts by local residents.

Some recent (March 2006) issues covered by the Register include New Haven Mayor John DeStefano's gubernatorial bid; the striking Sikorsky workers; the arrest of Westbrook First Selectman John A. Raffa on larceny and coercion charges; the trial of former representative and state senator Ernie Newton on corruption charges; and Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's gift of low-cost heating oil to low-income Connecticut residents.

Ownership The Register is owned by the Journal Register Company, a small-time newspaper chain that owns hundreds of papers in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. The Register is the "flagship" paper of the Journal Register Company - the supposed best, largest, and most popular newspaper owned by the company. In Connecticut, the Journal Register Company owns not only the Register, but also the New Britain Herald, the Middletown Press, the Bristol Press, and the Torrington Register-Citizen. JRC also owns weekly papers in Connecticut: the Guilford Shoreline Times, the Old Saybrook Pictorial Gazette, the New London Dolphin, the Branford Review, the Clinton Recorder, the Colchester Regional Standard, the Milford Weekly, the Hamden Chronicle, the Shelton Weekly, the Stratford Bard, the Orange Bulletin, the East Haven Advertiser, the West Haven News, the Wallingford Voice, the East Hartford Gazette, the Thomaston Express, the West Hartford News, the Wethersfield Chronicle, the Newington Town Crier, the Windsor Journal, the Rocky Hill Post, the Bloomfield Journal, the Windsor Locks Journal, the Avon Courier, the Farmington Post, the Simsbury Post, the Tri-Town Post, and Connecticut Magazine.

In total, JRC owns 27 daily, and 327 weekly newspapers throughough the aforementioned states. The company claims that through its publications, it reaches 7.4 million households in a coverage area of 19 million.

Location The Register's main office is located at 40 Sargeant Drive in New Haven, Conn. The building is located far outside of downtown New Haven, lending a physical aspect to its already sparse coverage of the city. It has bureaus located in Ansonia, Milford, Wallingford, Hartford, Washington, D.C., and Old Saybrook.