About Reporting Hartford
Community. Culture. Conversations. All here.
Reporting Hartford is a student-led, community digital news publication and newsroom within the School of Communication at the University of Hartford. The digital news publication operates as a hybrid educational lab and community journalism entity, dedicated to producing high-quality, non-partisan, public-interest journalism focused on the Greater Hartford and surrounding areas.
Student reporters are immersed in covering events, people, and issues that directly impact local residents and community members including local business, social clubs, recreational/educational institutions, and neighborhoods around the Greater Hartford area. Students are engaged in reporting the operations and decisions of local governing bodies involved in revitalizing and maintaining the social, cultural, and economic wellbeing in this community.
The publication aims to serve as a platform that honors and highlights the multiculturalism in the Greater Hartford community, which has largely remained absent from mainstream news coverage.
Upper Albany Main Street
In the process of developing a community-focused newsroom, Reporting Hartford has established a strategic partnership with Upper Albany Main Street (UAMS). This non-profit organization has been actively involved in initiating redevelopment and economic revitalization efforts for the community and businesses located on Albany Street in Hartford.
As a community partner, UAMS has introduced students to the various cultural and social initiatives undertaken by the members in the Upper Albany community. To take an example, student-reporters in the newsroom worked on a short documentary about the opening of the new Caribbean Heritage Museum, which highlights the migration of the West Indian diaspora into Hartford, celebrates their cultural presence, and immense contribution to this community.
A second story captures the efforts of Levo international’s simplified hydroponics system, which has helped the community develop vacant and unused land into highly productive agricultural spaces where they can grow healthy foods and increase access to nutritional produce for the community.
