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The Lakeville Journal
The ''Lakeville Journal'' is an American weekly newspaper in Lakeville, Connecticut. It is published by The Lakeville Journal Company, which also publishes the ''Millerton News'' and published the ''Winsted Journal'' as a separate publication until it merged with the ''Lakeville Journal'' in 2017. History The ''Journal'' was established in 1897 by Colvin Card as an independent eight-column four page weekly, published on Saturdays. Card's other newspaper, the Millerton, New York ''Telegram'', had grown steadily in circulation. But the ''Journal'', situated in a small farming community with a dying iron industry, had limited circulation, with Rowell's Directory consistently rating it as a paper with less than a thousand in paid circulation in the early 20th century. Early on, the paper used a boilerplate system for national coverage, with the first and last pages being produced by a syndicate and run along with ads for patent medicines, and the internal pages dedicated to origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lakeville, Connecticut
Lakeville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States, close to Dutchess County, New York. It is within the town of Salisbury, but has its own ZIP Code (06039). As of the 2010 census, the population of Lakeville was 928, out of 3,741 in the entire town of Salisbury. The Hotchkiss School is located in Lakeville, and the Indian Mountain School is nearby. Geography Lakeville is in the southwest part of the town of Salisbury, on U.S. Route 44 southwest of the Salisbury town center. US 44 leads northeast to Canaan village and west to Millerton, New York. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Lakeville CDP has a total area of , of which are land and , or 14.8%, are water. Most of the water area is part of Lake Wononscopomuc, the deepest natural lake in the state. History Until 1846, Lakeville was called "Furnace Village", due to the location there of one of the early blast furnaces of the historic Salisbury iron industry (one of which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millerton, New York
Millerton is a village in Dutchess County, New York, United States with a population of 958 at the 2010 census. The village was named after Sidney Miller, a rail contractor who helped bring the railroad to that area. Millerton is part of the Poughkeepsie- Newburgh- Middletown Metropolitan Statistical Area of New York as well as the larger New York-Newark-Bridgeport NY- NJ- CT- PA Combined Statistical Area. Millerton was named one of "The Ten Coolest Small Towns in America" by Frommer's ''Budget Travel Magazine'' in 2007, and has been featured in the ''New York Times'' article "Williamsburg on the Hudson". Millerton is within the town of North East and is near Taconic State Park and the Connecticut border. History The community of Millerton formed after 1851, and the village was incorporated in 1875. Irondale The Millerton Iron Company established itself nearby in an area known as Irondale and was served by a telegraph address in Millerton. The foundry had two Cooper hot bla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linotype Machine
The Linotype machine ( ) is a "line casting" machine used in printing; manufactured and sold by the former Mergenthaler Linotype Company and related It was a hot metal typesetting system that cast lines of metal type for individual uses. Linotype became one of the mainstay methods to set type, especially small-size body text, for newspapers, magazines, and posters from the late 19th century to the 1970s and 1980s, when it was largely replaced by phototypesetting and digital typesetting. The name of the machine comes from the fact that it produces an entire line of metal type at once, hence a ''line-o'-type''. It was a significant improvement over the previous industry standard of manual, letter-by-letter typesetting using a composing stick and shallow subdivided trays, called "cases". The Linotype machine operator enters text on a 90-character keyboard. The machine assembles ''matrices'', which are molds for the letter forms, in a line. The assembled line is then cast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Ross (journalist)
Brian Elliot Ross (born October 23, 1948) is an American investigative journalist who served as the Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News until 2018. He reported for '' ABC World News Tonight with David Muir'', ''Nightline'', ''Good Morning America'', ''20/20'', and ABC News Radio. Ross joined ABC News in July 1994 and was fired in 2018. His investigative reports have often covered government corruption. From 1974 until 1994, Ross was a correspondent for NBC News. Early life Ross was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the University of Iowa journalism school in 1971. NBC News In the mid 1970s, while reporting for WKYC-TV in Cleveland, Ross reported on Jackie Presser and corruption in the Teamsters union and interviewed mobster Danny Greene. He continued to report on the Teamsters after being hired by NBC News. His reporting on the Teamsters won him a Sigma Delta Chi Award in 1976 and a National Headliner award in 1977. Ross broke the FBI Abscam sto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers Published In Connecticut
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th century, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
