Republican-American
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 The December 22, 2006 front page of the Republican-American |
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner | American-Republican Inc. |
| Publisher | William J. Pape II |
| Editor | Jonathan Kellogg |
| Headquarters | 389 Meadow Street, Waterbury, Connecticut 06722-2090  United States |
| Official website | www.rep-am.com |
The Republican-American, headquartered in Waterbury, Connecticut is the United States' 193rd-largest newspaper (as of September 2005[update]) with an average Sunday circulation of 61,100.[1] It was distinguished in 1940 with a Pulitzer Prize for Public Service "for its campaign exposing municipal graft" which is on public display.
The name resulted from the merger of two newspapers in the early 1990s — the American and the Republican — by their owner, William J. Pape. The newspaper was founded and is still controlled by the Pape family through a holding company, American-Republican Inc., with William J. Pape II serving as current publisher. The executive editor is Jonathan F. Kellogg.
The newspaper is made up of more than 40 reporters covering Greater Waterbury, the Naugatuck Valley, and Litchfield County areas. Municipalities in the newspaper's coverage area include Waterbury, Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethlehem, Bridgewater, Canaan, Cheshire, Colebrook, Cornwall, Derby, Goshen, Harwinton, Kent, Litchfield, Middlebury, Morris, Naugatuck, New Hartford, New Milford, North Canaan, Oxford, Plymouth, Prospect, Roxbury, Seymour, Sharon, Southbury, Thomaston, Torrington, Warren, Washington, Winchester, Watertown, Woodbury, and Wolcott;[2] smaller non-incorporated areas include Bantam, Gaylordsville, Oakville, Terryville, Union City, Waterville, and Winsted.
The paper is located at 389 Meadow Street in Waterbury.
[edit] Editorial stance
The Republican-American has a conservative editorial stance. It has accused Senator Chris Dodd of being "chief apologist for the communist tyrants,"[3] Senate candidate Ned Lamont of being a Stalinist,[4] and claimed "Marxists-Socialists" control the Democratic Party.[5]
The newspaper trade publication Editor & Publisher criticized the Republican-American's editorial page for its "McCarthyism" and "red-baiting", and for an August 2005 editorial, "Is New Orleans Worth Reclaiming?" which called for the abandonment of New Orleans post-Katrina.[6]
The New Orleans Times-Picayune criticized the Republican-American in an editorial titled "Yes, We're Worth It", labeling the Waterbury paper "heartless" and asking "How dare they?"[6]
The Republican-American has also been critical of investment in mass transportation.[7] Its headquarters are located alongside the city's Metro-North Railroad station, and actually in the beautiful Mead, McKim, and White-designed building that formerly served as the city's railroad station.
Fiscal conservative groups such as the Club for Growth have, on the other hand, supported much of the paper's editorial agenda.[8]
Some of the paper's main competitors include the Connecticut Post, the Danbury News-Times, the Meriden Record-Journal, the New Haven Register, and the Torrington Register Citizen. However, these competitors do not cover Waterbury news, making the Republican American the only newspaper for the city of approximatley 108,000.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.accessabc.com/reader/top150.htm
- ^ Mike Puffer, "State's population growth continues to slow", Republican-American, July 10, 2008.
- ^ http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=10926
- ^ http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=11082
- ^ Editorial, Republican-American (Waterbury, Conn.) - April 19, 2006
- ^ a b Greg Mitchell, "A Connecticut Yankee in Joe Stalin's Court: Painting Ned Lamont 'Red'", Editor & Publisher, August 15, 2006.
- ^ http://www.trainweb.org/ct/waterbury.pdf
- ^ http://www.clubforgrowth.org/2006/02/free_market_editorial_pages_th.php
