The Day (New London)
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Owner(s) | The Day Publishing Company |
| Founder(s) | Chappell family |
| Publisher | Gary Farrugia |
| Founded | 1881 |
| Headquarters | New London, Connecticut |
| ISSN | 0744-0499 |
| Website |
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The Day newspaper, formerly known as The New London Day, is a local newspaper based in New London, Connecticut published by The Day Publishing Company. The newspaper has won Newspaper of the Year and the Best Daily Newspaper Award from the New England Press Association. It has twice won the Horace Greeley Award for "courage and outstanding effectiveness in serving the public." It has won the American Society of Newspaper Editors Example of Excellence in Small Newspaper award and the Columbia Journalism Review has listed it as one of the top 100 newspapers in the country with a circulation of less than 100,000 copies.
History
It was founded in 1881 as a mouthpiece of the local Republican Party in an era when many American newspapers served political parties. Gary Farrugia has served as Publisher since 2001.
The paper endorsed Democratic Party candidate Senator Barack Obama for President of the United States in the 2008 election cycle.
Ever since the death of its founder, Theodore Bodenwein, The Day has been held in public trust, and is still independent.
The Day Trust devotes its attention to operating the newspaper and supporting a charitable foundation, the Bodenwein Public Benevolent Foundation. This arrangement ensures that the newspaper will remain independent and locally owned and that profits from the newspaper will be distributed to non-profit organizations within The Day's primary circulation area.
In October 2010, The New England Newspaper & Press Association recognized The Day as its Newspaper of the Year for its weekday edition and Newspaper of the Year for its Sunday edition in the 25,000 to 40,000 circulation category.
The Day also received NENPA's Publick Occurrences award in recognition "of outstanding journalism in 2010 for flood coverage" that included its print, photographic and Web component in theday.com. The recognition came for coverage of the flooding in late March and early April that devastated many communities in southeastern Connecticut and southern Rhode Island.
In December 2009, theday.com was recognized as New England's Website of the Year. That same year, reporter Lee Howard won the Theodore Driscoll Investigative Reporting Award for a series of stories about H1-B visa abuses.
The Day's multimedia producer Peter Huoppi earned two Regional Emmy Awards in May 2010 for its multimedia series, "The Deaf Kid Who Played Rock n Roll" reported by Joe Wojtas; and "Stories of the Silent Service" reported by Jennifer Grogan.[1]
In 2012, political reporter JC Reindl won the Theodore Driscoll award for an article that raised questions about Connecticut’s investment in the ticket resale company TicketNetwork. And Editorial Page Editor Paul Choiniere took home the First Amendment Award for a series of editorials on freedom of information issues .