New Haven Register

The New Haven Register dates back to 1812, when it was founded as the Columbian Register. Beginning in 1840, the paper began publishing a daily edition called the Evening Register. In 1987, the New Haven Register absorbed the Journal-Courier. filed for Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. On March 4, 2012, the Register closed its printing operation and sourced printing of the newspaper to the Hartford Courant. In September 2012, the Journal Register Company again filed for bankruptcy. It had emerged afterwards as part of Digital First Media, a merger between the Journal Register Company and MediaNews Group. In 2017, Digital First Media sold the paper to Hearst Newspapers. In 2024, the newspaper moved its newsroom out of New Haven and into the Record-Journal's office in Meriden, which Hearst had acquired the year prior. == Competitors ==

As of 2015, the paper had a weekday circulation of 64,210, the second largest in the state after the Hartford Courant. Its main daily competitors are new Hearst stablemate the Post, located in Bridgeport, which covers Stratford, Milford, and portions of the lower Naugatuck Valley (Ansonia, Derby, Oxford, Seymour, and Shelton), and the Waterbury Republican-American, which covers Greater Waterbury, Litchfield County, and the Naugatuck Valley. The Register also shares part of its circulation area with Elm City Newspapers, a chain of weekly newspapers which also share an owner and a New Haven headquarters building with the Register. ==See also==