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1 2 6 H a r t f o r d Hartford Courant – CT1 Media CT1 Media's Hartford Courant/ FOX CT newsroom is an always- on-deadline engine, keeping Connecticut residents up to the minute with the news and information they need to navigate their day. T he city of Hartford's founder, Thomas Hooker, was a fearless and charis- matic preacher who, along with his followers, tromped through the wil- derness from Massachusetts to Connecticut with high-minded purpose. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Hartford Courant had Thomas Green, the resourceful son of a print- er who — sensing opportunity — moved from New Haven and began publishing a weekly paper, The Connecticut Courant, in Hartford. The Connecticut Courant became the Daily Courant in 1837 and was renamed the Hartford Courant in 1887. The Courant has never missed an issue since it was founded on October 29, 1764. "America's Oldest Continuously Published Newspaper" is still based in Hartford, where you will also find the nation's oldest public art museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the old- est municipal park, Bushnell Park, and the second-oldest secondary school, Hartford Public. In 1894, the Courant reached even deeper into the community when it opened a summer camp for children. Hartford's Camp Courant became the nation's largest free day camp, a title it holds to this day. "We're proud to be in Hartford, a city as rich in tradition as the Courant," says Richard Graziano, the Courant's forward-looking pub- lisher, president and CEO. Graziano is also the vice president and general manager of FOX CT/WCCT-TV. "We are Hartford's own," Graziano says from his fourth-floor office on Broad Street, with the modern studio of Connecticut's news- room one floor below. Best of both worlds When the FOX Connecticut television station moved into Broad Street alongside the Courant in 2009 under Graziano's stewardship, one of the most dynamic and diversified local media companies in the country — CT1 Media — was born. CT1 Media combines the trusted, long-standing heritage of the Courant and the most technologically advanced TV news production facilities in the indus- try. Integration is at the core of CT1 Media's opera- tions and content gathering, while its brands and news products exist independently to serve their respective audiences. "CT1 Media is Hartford's media company," Graziano says. "It combines tradition and trust while delivering the most local news in the state from one of the most modern newsrooms in the country." Fixed in history and the future The Courant is the newspaper in which George Washington placed an ad to lease part of his Mount Vernon land. Thomas Jefferson sued the newspaper for libel — The Connecticut Courant The Courant has not missed an issue since this front page was printed in 1764.