About mattderienzo
Matt DeRienzo is group editor of Journal Register Company's publications in Connecticut, including the New Haven Register, Middletown Press, Register Citizen, Connecticut Magazine and weeklies including the Litchfield County Times and West Hartford News.
Previously, he served as publisher of The Register Citizen, Middletown Press and a group of weeklies in Northwest Connecticut, and before that was corporate director of news for small dailies and non-daily publications for Yardley, Pennsylvania-based Journal Register Company, Foothills Media Group's parent company.
DeRienzo serves on the board of the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce and the United Way of Northwest Connecticut, and has served as co-chairman of the United Way's annual fundraising campaign in 2009 and again in 2011. In 2011, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the United Way of Northwest Connecticut and was named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Litchfield County" by Litchfield Magazine.
In early 2011, The Register Citizen was named one of Editor & Publisher magazine's "10 Newspapers That Do It Right," and DeRienzo was named to its annual "25 Under 35" list of leaders in the newspaper industry.
In the fall of 2011, The Register Citizen was awarded the Associated Press Managing Editors Innovator of the Year Award in recognition of The Register Citizen Newsroom Cafe, an "open newsroom" launched in Torrington, Connecticut, in December 2010.
Tear down the old buildings, level them all and design modern buildings that could house, businesses, art gallerys, a school for modernizing the local work force to attract new industry and try to create a really self sufficiant complex that will propel Torrington into a 21 centry a model of artistic and enviromental design. Useing the old buildings to house the same old New England type of run down general store to me is short sighted and keeps Torrington in the same old rut.
Think West Hartford get great restaurants a Max’s would be awesome! Clothing stores would help the local community store owners too… I wrote to H&M for Howard’s but no go… Maybe an Urban Outfitters… We have enough antique, pizza, and hair salons in town. UCONN Torrington downtown would help significantly especially with an MBA, Entraprunerial studies program….