Josh LaBella

Breaking news reporter for Hearst CT / SCSU Grad 📰 Bookworm 📚 Sith⚡️DM⚔️ Gamer🕹

[Josh LaBella @LabellaJosh]

I believe @GovNedLamont should reinstitute the Connecticut Royal Charter claim of 1662 and create Long Connecticut

[K Tully-McManus @ktullymcmanus]

You really haven’t lived until you’ve sat for hours at a New England town meeting where’s there’s a proposal for
- new apartments
- a school getting built
- putting lights on the sports field

[Sami Gold @souljagoyteller]

This…..destroys the whole point of Nighthawks

[Connecticut News Guild @CTnewsguild]

We recently held a union election at Hearst Connecticut Media, and we learned minutes ago that…

WE WON!!!

By an overwhelming vote of 68-17, our members voted to unionize as part of @newsguild.

It’s a great day for journalism in CT!

🐳🐳🐳

[Scott Nover @ScottNover]

Both the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries for Jimmy Carter have joint bylines including writers who have been dead for years. The Guardian ran an obit with a single byline—and yes, the writer has been dead since 2021.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Took a photo of this drone in New Jersey and no one is talking about it

[Aleksandra Skiba 🔜PYRKON @AlexineSkiba]

I can’t believe we’re finally getting Gwent 2

[Matthew Siu @MatthewWSiu]

made a map that lets you discover wikipedia pages around the world 🗺️📌

[Connecticut News Guild @CTnewsguild]

We’re unionizing to make our workplace better. Lately, management seems intent on making our workplace worse.

Here are a few examples of recent changes that underscore why we need a union:

[Josh LaBella @LabellaJosh]

Crews battle Portland house fire on Indian Hill Avenue https://t.co/aNK7dirySa via @Middletownpress

[angel @angelmendoza___]

i hate journalism halloween what do you mean you’re writing directly in the cms

[Leigh Giangreco @LeighGiangreco]

Hot take but I think it’s weird how quiet newsrooms are nowadays and the fact that reporters can’t yell over the phone anymore is an affront to journalism and maybe also anti-Italian

[The Middletown Press @Middletownpress]

Police responding to threat at East Hampton schools, officials say https://t.co/bNtuR0xE2K

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1789-Congress Proposes The Bill of Rights
1875-Billy the Kid Escapes Jail By Climbing Out Chimney
1965-The Beatles Cartoons Debut on ABC-TV
1979-EVITA opens on Broadway
2024-National Quesadilla Day
1951-I am born in Oakland, California