Image Mike DeLuca That’s certainly been the case for most Connecticut news outlets, but over the past dozen years, national media giant Hearst Communications has stood out in an otherwise shrinking sector here. Hearst Connecticut Media, led since 2019 by Group Publisher/President Mike DeLuca and Editor-in-Chief Wendy Metcalfe, has grown into the largest news organization in the state since 2008, employing some 200 journalists across eight Fairfield County-centric daily papers, including the Connecticut Post and New Haven Register, as well as a dozen weeklies and various websites. Hearst has a central Connecticut presence with its Middletown Press publication. Hearst Connecticut has made waves in local media circles over the past few years, poaching marquee talent from the state’s flagship paper, the Hartford Courant, including columnists Dan Haar, Colin McEnroe, Jeff Jacobs and most recently Mike Anthony, in addition to various editors and reporters.