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Final @soljourno.bsky.social Student Media Challenge cohort meeting for 2025. Our 1st story for this project on youth mental health is published and widely distributed, and we have three more coming. We’ll be back with our partners and awesome coordinator @sbpeshkin.bsky.social in 2026. Can’t wait!
December 12, 2025 at 1:16 PM
It was wonderful to gather in person this week to hear from our New Haven-area students about their experiences of being published through CT Community News. These are inspiring young people!
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Celebrating our New Haven area students
Students, faculty, editors and community members gathered at Southern Connecticut State University Dec.
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
So proud of all the great work our students have done in 2025!
December 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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An anti-discrimination rule that forecloses magazines that write about James Baldwin and Prince but not magazines that write about William F Buckley and Taylor Swift. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
U. of Alabama Suspends Black and Female Student Magazines, Citing D.E.I. Guidance
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December 3, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Want to support inspiring young people who believe in democracy and are working hard for freedom of information and the future of community news? Of course you do! #GivingTuesday
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December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
If you're in the New Haven area this evening, our networking event is ON! We'll be at SCSU's Adanti Student Center at 5:30pm. Hear from our students about their experiences of being published, and find out more about how CT Community News supports them. And we'll feed you! Free and open to all!
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It's #GivingTuesday! We'd be so grateful if you would consider a donation to support our student reporters. These amazing young people truly are the future as we rebuild local news and community reporting. Read more/donate at the link below. Thank you!
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Support our students on Giving Tuesday!
We’re so grateful to you for reading and enjoying our students’ stories all year.
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December 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Karla Perez, a senior at @uconnjournalism.bsky.social, was part of a reporting team that got a scoop on a financial connection between CT's state pension fund and a company supporting ICE flights.
November 19, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Our students at CT State Manchester have taken a deep dive into the latest toy craze. Ever met a #Labubu you didn't love?
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Labubus creep onto holiday wish lists
Connecticut retailers stocking up on real and fake forest creatures
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November 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A student journalist fired... For asking follow-up questions to the president of the state's flagship university.
Student journalist terminated following interview with UVA interim President Paul Mahoney - C-VILLE Weekly
Getting an interview with, let alone answers from, upper leadership at the University of Virginia is an uphill battle for any news organization. The groups with the most access to UVA’s administration...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
In the #NewHaven area and want to find out more about our program? We're teaming with @scsu.bsky.social to hold a networking event Dec 2nd, 5:30-7:30pm. Free and open to all!
November 12, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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So proud of two of my students who took Tuesday’s class assignment to the next level for publication at CT Community News. And their story was republished by local news media! @ctsjc.bsky.social ctcommunitynews.substack.com/p/young-vote...
Young voter engagement mixed as Connecticut towns and cities go to the polls
By Ny’Asia Martin and Ronan Hinckley | Central Connecticut State University
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November 6, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Thrilled to see great reporting from CT student journalists once again getting a featured coverage slot on the National Community Newswire!
November 5, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Some breaking news from our @uconnjournalism.bsky.social students as the university senate votes to delay a requirement that undergraduates take a course on anti-Black racism.
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Anti-Black racism course requirement placed on hold at UConn
By Sara Bedigian & Breanna Bonner | University of Connecticut
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November 4, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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Anti-Black racism course requirement placed on hold at UConn... https://go.ctcapitolreport.com/47yYgpi
November 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
A scoop from two of our @uconnjournalism.bsky.social seniors: CT state pension fund is invested in a fund that part-owns Signature Aviation, a company doing support work for ICE deportation flights.
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Connecticut Treasurer’s office schedules meeting to discuss portfolio firm’s connection with ICE flights
By Anna Heqimi and Karla Perez | University of Connecticut
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October 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Important 🧵
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
October 15, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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@scsu.bsky.social student Brandon Cortés published the very first article ever on CT Community News, an in-depth data dive on the real impact of re-imposing bus fares in Connecticut after a pandemic hiatus.
October 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We are very proud to say that thanks to the generous support of our founding sponsor, the Center for Community News, the work of Connecticut's most talented student journalists is making an impact! Check out the stories on our website, ctcommunitynews.substack.com
CT Community News | Substack
The work of Connecticut's best student journalists, all in one place. Click to read CT Community News, a Substack publication.
ctcommunitynews.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
@scsu.bsky.social student Brandon Cortés published the very first article ever on CT Community News, an in-depth data dive on the real impact of re-imposing bus fares in Connecticut after a pandemic hiatus.
October 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Students and faculty from across Connecticut are hard at work this year with the @soljourno.bsky.social's Student Media Challenge cohort, focusing on covering youth mental health.

We get the awesome opportunity to gather each month with other cohort members to learn about their inspiring work!
October 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
CT Community News representing at the Center for Community News 2025 national conference in Vermont! So good to gather with news-academic partnerships from all over the country to brainstorm about student reporting and the future of news!
October 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Some words of wisdom from one of our published journalism students, Avery Martin, who's a senior at @scsu.bsky.social.
September 30, 2025 at 1:50 AM
CT Community News and the CT Student Journalism Collaborative are back on WILI Radio's On the Homefront tonight at 5pm!
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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