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By Corina Wallenta | UConn Journalism April 25, 2022
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By LAURA AUGENBRAUN | UConn Journalism January 18, 2022 Evan White was in his second to last lacrosse season at Foran High School in Milford, Connecticut in spring of 2019, when suddenly his team started hearing rumors of their games being rescheduled and even canceled. “It was actually really scary because we weren’t sure what was…
Some have no plans to return to the classroom post-COVID By JOHN LEAHY | UConn Journalism January 18, 2022 GLASTONBURY — Colin O’Doherty woke up one morning and had an idea. It was June 2020, and the 19-year-old college student had been conflicted for months. His school, the University of Vermont, had announced that it would conduct…
By Ben Crnic | UConn Journalism July 2021 Visitors to East Shore Park in New Haven aren’t able to easily stroll along the beach there. It’s not closed. It’s being physically cut off from the rest of the park by erosion. Getting to the beach requires getting down a steep slope, and there’s a good chance…
The ‘Crash Course’ newsletter team brings you behind the stories this week with a podcast to hear from three Connecticut political journalists — Daniela Altimari of The Hartford Courant, Emilie Munson of Hearst Connecticut, and Amber Diaz of WTNH-TV. They talk about their experiences covering the 2020 election and the coronavirus pandemic. We also asked…
By GABRIELLA DEBENEDICTIS August 20, 2019 Special to the Chronicle STORRS — Edwina Whitney focused on the future in her professional life as a librarian at what would become the University of Connecticut. But she was also nostalgic for the past. A lifelong Mansfield resident who, for decades, worked for the university her family helped establish, she…
By SARAH AL-ARSHANI July 16, 2019 Special to the Chronicle STORRS — Mildred French was a pioneer for females at the University of Connecticut in the era between the two world wars. An independent woman who studied at five different institutions of higher education, she earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees at a time when few women…
In Spring 2018, a team of UConn Journalism students asked four Connecticut journalists how the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting changed the way they cover gun violence and the gun control debate. We talked with reporters Jenn Bernstein and Matthew Kauffman, editorial page editor Jacqueline Smith and columnist Susan Campbell. Mass shootings had happened…
By Jason Jiang and Neel Razdan. Produced as part of Prof. Steve Smith’s advanced visual journalism course, Dec. 2017.