When a relatively obscure newspaper publisher showed up in photographs last month addressing the staff of The Las Vegas Review-Journal, his appearance baffled journalists — in Connecticut.
Reporters and editors at The Bristol Press and The New Britain Herald, small publications serving towns just outside of Hartford, knew their editor and publisher, Michael E. Schroeder, as a loud and sometimes ornery leader who was friendly with advertisers. How he ended up in a newsroom nearly 3,000 miles away was anybody’s guess.
“When this whole thing broke, it came as a total surprise to me,” said Jack Kramer, a top editor at the Connecticut papers from 2012 to 2013. “I honestly had no idea how Mike Schroeder ended up in Las Vegas.”
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