Connecticut Post

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The Connecticut Post is a daily newspaper, serving the area of southwestern Connecticut around and including Bridgeport. It was formerly owned by the Thomson newspaper chain, but when that company sold off its newspapers, Media News Group bought the Post.

Some of the towns in the Post's circulation area include Derby, Easton, Fairfield, Milford, Monroe, Oxford, Redding, Seymour, Shelton, Stratford, Trumbull and Westport.

The Post's coverage area presents problems as Bridgeport, Connecticut's largest city, is a poor and mostly minority area, while the surrounding eastern Fairfield County and western New Haven County area is affluent and mostly white. Consequently, while the Post does provide solid coverage of Bridgeport, most of the paper is composed of local stories regarding the surrounding towns.

The newspaper was formerly the morning Bridgeport Telegram and evening Bridgeport Post before consolidating into a morning publication.

The paper has a weekday circulation of 85,168, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulation<ref>"Top 200 Newspapers by Largest Reported Circulation". Audit Bureau of Circulation (2006). Retrieved on December 1, 2006.</ref>, behind the Hartford Courant (264,539) and the New Haven Register (89,022). The paper competes directly with the Register in Stratford, Milford, Derby and Shelton.

The publisher is Robert Laska and the editor-in-chief is James H. Smith. Smith has attempted to take the paper in a different direction, stressing slice-of-life style features and downplaying court/police coverage.

Unlike many other major dailies in the state (such as the Register, Courant and Manchester Journal-Inquirer) the Post has filled vacancies on its staff, keeping a steady number of reporters over the last few years.

Some significant stories the Post has broken include Bridgeport Mayor Joseph Ganim's notorius bribery scandal and current Bridgeport Mayor John Fabrizi's admitting to using cocaine.

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