Hartford Courant

The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States. A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street in Hartford, Connecticut was a short walk from the state capitol. It reports regional news with a chain of bureaus in smaller cities and a series of local editions. It also operates CTNow, a free local weekly newspaper and website. The Courant began as a weekly called the Connecticut Courant on October 29, 1764, becoming daily in 1837. In 1979, it was bought by the Times Mirror Company. In 2000, Times Mirror was acquired by the Tribune Company, which later combined the paper's management and facilities with those of a Tribune-owned Hartford television station. The Courant and other Tribune print properties were spun off to a new corporate parent, Tribune Publishing, separate from the station, in 2014. In 2020 printing operations ceased in Hartford and were outsourced to Springfield, MA. At the heat of the COVID pandemic in December 2020 all Hartford Courant staff permanently vacated the offices to work from home, and later in 2022 the printing press was dismantled and sold for scrap. Tribune Publishing agreed in May 2021 to be acquired by Alden Global Capital, which operates its media properties through Digital First Media. The transaction was finalized on May 25, 2021. While Alden Global Capital had purchased the building on 285 Broad St. in Hartford for $6.9 million in 2018 through an LLC it was tied to, the building will be put up for absolute auction in November 2025.

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