Paul Bass edits the New Haven Independent and has been a leading reporter and editor in Connecticut for 30 years. He has won dozens of national and regional awards for investigative, news, business, feature, and opinion writing and reporting. Before launching the Independent , he worked as an editor and investigative reporter for the New Haven Advocate from 1989-2004.

Bass is the co-author, with co-author Douglas W. Rae, of Murder in the Model City: The Black Panthers, Yale, & The Redemption of a Killer (2006, Basic Books) about the 1969 murder of a Black Panther in New Haven and the resulting trials and FBI revelations surrounding the case. Thousands of his articles about Connecticut are in a dedicated archive housed at the Manuscripts & Archives section of Yale Universitys Sterling Memorial Library. Bass is the executive director of The Online Journalism Project.

Listen to Bass describe the origins of the New Haven Independent .