John Ferraro, who has held editing and reporting jobs throughout Connecticut, has been named editor of the Hartford Business Journal.
Ferraro most recently worked as the investigative editor at the Hartford Courant, where he spent the last 10 years. He was previously the Courant’s deputy state editor and a bureau chief in the newspaper’s Middletown and Farmington Valley bureaus.
In 2006, he guided and edited a series on the U.S. military’s mental-health policies. The series was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and won numerous national and regional awards, including a George Polk Award.
Prior to his work at the Courant, Ferraro, 46, was an editor and reporter at the New Haven Register for seven years. He previously worked as a reporter at The Hour in Norwalk and the Naugatuck Daily News. He is a 1985 graduate of Southern Connecticut State University.
Ferraro said he plans to build on the strong relationship the Hartford Business Journal has with its audience, with an emphasis on making HartfordBusiness.com a must visit for timely business news.
“We’re developing a Web site that provides our audience with a sense of community and gives them a chance to interact with people who share the same types of interests and are facing the same types of challenges,” he said. “The media landscape in Connecticut is changing dramatically and the Hartford Business Journal is better positioned to provide a complete and relevant multimedia experience than any other news outlet in the state.”
Ferraro, who started last week, lives in Cheshire with his wife and two children, 14 and 12.
