The Winsted Citizen, a monthly Litchfield County newspaper launched by consumer advocate and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, has been shut down after publishing nine editions.
The Associated Press reported the board of the nonprofit Connecticut News Consortium which oversees the newspaper voted today to end its publication. Andy Thibault, the newspaper’s editor and publisher, alerted his staff to the closure in an internal memo.
“We beat the Grim Reaper every month for most of the year,” Thibault wrote. “Our best month financially resulted in our lowest deficit. Now, our quest regrettably has become the impossible dream. It sure was great — despite numerous stumbles, obstacles and heartaches — while it lasted.”
The newspaper, which was originally planned as a weekly, covered Winsted and the surrounding towns of Hartland, Riverton, Colebrook, Norfolk and New Hartford, plus the city of Torrington. This was the second newspaper that Nader created – he previously launched the Washington, D.C.-based Capitol Hill Citizen in 2022 in a print-only edition.
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