Meet Bruno Matarazzo Jr.

Bruno Matarazzo Jr. is the education and social services reporter at the Republican-American’s Torrington bureau.

Before joining the Republican-American in June 2012, he spent 10 years working in newspapers in New Hampshire and the North Shore of Massachusetts. He worked at Foster’s Daily Democrat and was part of the newspaper’s 2004 New Hampshire presidential primary coverage.

Bruno graduated from Northeastern University in Boston in 2002. A Connecticut native, Bruno started in journalism while a senior at Wethersfield High School when he worked in the Hartford Courant’s sports department as an editors’ assistant. He worked under the late Bo Kolinsky and he compiled box scores for the agate page.