James A. Cutie - chief executive officer and publisher

Jim's primary responsibility is to assure the long-term sustainability of the Project and identifying other potential partners and opportunities for growth. He has 35 years of general management, marketing, communications and fundraising experience in traditional and online media, including The New York Times. Jim founded a media consulting firm in Connecticut in 1997 and was a partner in Plum Holdings, L.P., an early stage media venture fund.

Jenifer Frank, editor of the CT Mirror

Jenifer was an editor for The Hartford Courant, where she served as news editor, politics editor and, for five years, editor of Northeast, the paper’s Sunday magazine. She has also been an editor at The Day, in New London. She co-authored “Complicity” (Ballantine/Random House), a history book that explored the North’s involvement in slavery. A New York native, she grew up in Stamford and was graduated from Trinity College.

Mark Pazniokas - Capitol bureau chief

Mark is the former state politics writer for the Hartford Courant and a former contributing writer for The New York Times. In the course of more than 25 years as a reporter, he covered some of the most compelling stories in the state, including the impeachment inquiry and resignation of Governor John G. Rowland in 2004 and the nationally watched Senate race won by Senator Joseph I. Lieberman as an independent in 2006. He is a graduate of Boston University.

Robert Frahm - senior education writer

Bob covered education for newspapers in Wisconsin and Connecticut for 36 years before retiring from the Hartford Courant. As the Courant's chief education writer, he covered topics such as testing, teacher quality, school reform, and school desegregation, including the Sheff vs. O'Neill lawsuit. He is a former board member and past president of the national Education Writers Association. Bob is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin.

Jacqueline Rabe Thomas - education reporter

Jacqueline has been a reporter, online editor and web site developer for The Washington Post Company's Maryland newspaper chains. She also has worked for Congressional Quarterly and the Toledo Free Press. She is a graduate of Bowling Green State University.

Keith Phaneuf - state Capitol reporter

Keith is the former state Capitol bureau chief for The Journal Inquirer of Manchester. He has spent most of 21 years as a reporter specializing in state government finances, analyzing such topics as income tax equity, waste in government and the complex funding systems behind Connecticut's transportation and social services networks. A former contributing writer for The New York Times, Keith is a graduate of and a former journalism instructor at the University of Connecticut.

Arielle Levin Becker, health reporter

Arielle Levin Becker covers health and health care issues for The Mirror. She previously worked for The Hartford Courant since 2006, most recently as its health reporter. She also has covered education and municipal beats for the Courant and for the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick, N.J. In 2009 she was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and a recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship. She is a 2004 graduate of Yale University.

Uma Ramiah, senior fellow

Uma Ramiah is the first holder of the Robert Hohler Fellowship, created in the memory of Bob Hohler, a founding Connecticut News Project Board member who died in June. Uma has a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota and a master's degree from Yale in religion with a concentration in African studies. She also attended the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. She worked in Dakar as a research intern for Human Rights Watch in 2005-2006 and as a reporting intern for the United Nations Integrated Regional Information Network in 2007. She was a freelance journalist in West and Central Africa in 2007 and 2008, and previously participated in a fellowship with The Mirror, the New Haven Independent and WNPR .

Caitlin Emma is a participant in a fellowship program established in partnership with Connecticut Public Broadcasting and the New Haven Independent. She graduated from the University of Connecticut in May with a degree in journalism and political science. She previously interned and worked as a freelancer at the state Capitol for CTNewsJunkie, and most recently completed an internship with the Daily Caller website in Washington, D.C.

Ana Radelat - Washington correspondent

Ana is a longtime Washington correspondent, writing for more than a dozen newspapers, including USAToday, The (Jackson, Miss.) Clarion-Ledger, the Shreveport (La.) Times and the Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. She’s also been a regular contributor to other publications, including the Miami Herald and Advertising Age. Some of the stories Ana has broken focused on the strategies of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, former Sen. Trent Lott’s fall from power and questionable Hurricane Katrina contracts. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Journalism.

Neena Satija

Neena Satija is a participant in a CT Mirror fellowship established in conjunction with Connecticut Public Radio and the New Haven Independent. She has worked as a general assignment reporter at the Toledo Blade in Ohio and at the Dallas Morning News. She also worked as a health/science reporter at the Boston Globe. Neena graduated from Yale University in May 2011 with a degree in English. Originally from the Washington, D.C., area, she lives in New Haven.