The Middletown Press has a new publisher.

Matt DeRienzo, who has served as publisher of The Register Citizen and Foothills Media Group since February 2008, was named Central Connecticut Publisher for the Journal Register Company this week.

You can read more about the announcement here.

Matt has done some great things at The Register Citizen in Torrington, including creating a newsroom cafe, digitizing all newspaper archives and making them available to the public and taking a tough stand on comment moderation.

We are looking forward to working with him more closely here at The Middletown Press and expect many great things to happen in the months to come!