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Saturday, November 14, 2009
Westporter Heads New Connecticut Online News Project
A Westporter with broad experience in traditional and new media has been hired as chief operating officer of a new nonprofit Connecticut online news operation aimed at filling the growing void in coverage of Connecticut’s government.
Westporter James A. Cutie (r) described The Connecticut News Project today at a Yale Law School media symposium in New Haven. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) WestportNow.com/Yale Law School photo
James. A. Cutie, a 16-year Westport resident and in his new job two weeks, described plans for The Connecticut News Project today at a media conference at Yale Law School in New Haven.
He said the project’s mission is to “increase transparency and accountability” in Connecticut’s government.
Cutie, 58, lately has been involved in several venture capital companies. Earlier, he spent 17 years with The New York Times Company where he was president and CEO of The New York Times Information Services Group.
He said the effort will launch in January at www.ctmirror.org and has already lined up top journalists and a board to oversee its operations.
The Hartford-based news operation will be headed by Michael Regan, former Hartford Courant assistant managing editor, and include veteran Courant political reporter Mark Pazniokas. Regan oversaw the paper’s investigation that led to the resignation and eventual imprisonment of former Gov. John G. Rowland.
Cutie said funding will come from public and private sources as well as individual donations and through syndication of content. The project will seek to generate a dialogue with the public, provide accurate research, and create “a living political record” of Connecticut government, he said.
As previously announced, the project’s board of directors includes Marcia Chambers, research scholar in law and journalist in residence at Yale Law School; William Cibes, Jr., chancellor emeritus of the Connecticut State University System; Jeannette DeJesus, executive director, Hispanic Health Council; Shelley Geballe, distinguished senior fellow of Connecticut Voices for Children, lecturer at Yale Law School and School of Public Health, and Robert Hohler, executive director of the Melville Charitable Trust which funds educational, research and advocacy initiatives in Connecticut and on a national level.
Cutie was one of two Westport media professionals to address the two-day Yale Law School symposium entitled “Journalism and the New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay the Messengers?” sponsored by The Knight Law and Media Program / Yale Information Society Project.
Presenters on Friday included Larry Grossman, a longtime Westporter who is former president of NBC News and PBS and currently co-chair of the Digital Promise Project with former FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow.
The project proposed recommendations for a new federal research center, authorized by Congress last year, that will support development of innovative ways to use digital technology to benefit all Americans.
Westport attorney Stephen Nevas is a senior research scholar in law and executive director of the Law and Media program at Yale Law School
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