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In December 2020, [[Tribune Publishing]] announced that it would be closing the ''Courant'''s Broad Street newsroom by the end of the year with no current plans to open another.<ref>{{cite news |author=Katie Robertson |title=The Hartford Courant's newsroom is closing down |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/04/business/media/the-hartford-courants-newsroom-is-closing-down.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=December 4, 2020 |access-date=2020-12-04 }}</ref> On its website as of 2023, the ''Courant'' lists its mailing address as 100 Pearl Street in Hartford.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hartford Courant - Contact Us |url=https://membership.courant.com/contact-us/ |access-date=2023-05-22 |website=membership.courant.com |language=en}}</ref>
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The word "courant" derives from the French ''courante nouvellen'', indicating current news items,<ref>Joop W. Koopmans, ''Early Modern Media and the News in Europe: Perspectives from the Dutch Angle'' (Boston: Brill, 2018), page 140 and page 140note7 {{cite book |last1=Koopmans |first1=Joop W. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJByDwAAQBAJ&q=%22courant+is+a+contraction%22&pg=PA140 |title=Early Modern Media and the News in Europe |date=17 September 2018 |isbn=9789004379329}}</ref> possibly borrowed by way of the Dutch ''krant''.<ref>So suggests journalist Denis Edward Horgan, ''Flotsam: A Life in Debris'' (Higganum, Conn.: Higganum Hill Books, 2007), 62</ref> Courant was occasionally a name for English-language newspapers, including the ''New-England Courant'' (Boston), founded by James Franklin in 1721.<ref>J. A. Leo Lemay, ''The Life of Benjamin Franklin'', Vol. 1, ''Journalist, 1706-1730'' (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006 [2005]), 84</ref>▼
Journalist Denis Edward Horgan suggest that the title could derive from Dutch ''krant'',<ref>
▲''Flotsam: A Life in Debris'' (Higganum, Conn.: Higganum Hill Books, 2007), 62.</ref> The word,
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