Tamara Leigh Kramer, his daughter, said her father didn’t know how to stop reporting. In his final week, he emailed Backus to let her know what a good job she was doing. His family joked that he would do anything for a story, including going to the hospital during a pandemic to see what was happening. His final story for CTNewsJunkie was posted April 22. He was still reporting from his hospital bed. He joked that CTNewsJunkie had “pulled an old reporter off the scrap heap,” but Kramer was never rusty. In a goodbye column that never ran because there was hope that his cancer prognosis would improve, Kramer reflected on some of those stories. He was also proud of the topics he got to cover. He made such a mark on the careers of all the reporters and editors he worked with throughout his career. “Whatever windmill I was chasing, he would 100 percent say go for it,” Backus said.Īt the same time, he was this incredible person who was really modest about it. “He was a tremendous editor and truly a reporter’s editor.”īackus said she did some of her best work under Kramer because he supported her and let her go out and do the reporting. “What a loss for journalism,” Backus said. He called everyone to the newsroom and they got to work putting out the paper the next day in addition to a special edition.
Santangelo said the same was true on 9/11. She said he was always calm when there was breaking news about a hospital shooting or the Sandy Hook school shooting. Lisa Backus, who worked for Kramer in New Britain, said he understood a good story and was supportive of his reporters. “No one can stand in his shadow or fill his shoes.” “The day Jack left the Register was the day that paper changed forever,” she said. She said the most calls he ever got from readers was when the national syndicate ran the same Batman comic twice. Kramer, who started out delivering the New Haven Register, would even field calls from disgruntled readers, Rollins Bachinski said. “When you thought about the Register you thought about Jack Kramer.” He was vice president of sales and account management at Yahoo! from 2003 to 2008, and prior to that, he held various sales and management roles in the storage technology sector.ĭeLuca has a bachelor’s degree from Boston College.“The police chief knew him, the mayor knew him, and the fire chief knew him,” said Santangelo, who is now assistant managing editor at the New Haven Register. At Groupon, DeLuca held the role of vice president of sales and, prior to that, he served as senior vice president, sales and operations, for AOL Local.ĭeLuca is also on the advisory board of Yodle, where he was senior vice president of sales and marketing from 2008 to 2010. From 2013 to 2018, he was senior vice president, digital for Hearst Newspapers.ĭeLuca previously served as chief revenue officer at Savored, which was acquired by Groupon in 2012. Since 2018, DeLuca served as executive vice president, advertising sales, Hearst Newspapers.
DeLuca oversees Hearst’s network of media companies in Connecticut, including eight daily newspapers - Connecticut Post, Greenwich Time, New Haven Register, Stamford Advocate, The Middletown Press, The News-Times, The Norwalk Hour and The Register Citizen -14 weekly newspapers, 21 websites, including sites for all of its papers, as well as four magazines. Mike DeLuca is group publisher and president of Hearst Connecticut Media Group and chief executive officer of LocalEdge.
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