The mission of the Connecticut News Project, Inc. is to increase the level of civic engagement among state's residents. We are an independent, non-partisan, non-profit news organization created to reinvigorate coverage of Connecticut's state government, public policy and politics. Our primary goal is to ensure that the people of the state are better informed about their government and its activities, so they can more effectively participate in the development of public policy and hold officials accountable for understanding and addressing the state's needs. We will achieve this goal through original and reliable reporting presented on our website, www.ctmirror.org, and distributed through various other platforms and technologies. We will report, analyze, explain, and investigate the activities of state government, reasserting the "watchdog" role of the media. CNP also intends to encourage and facilitate discussion and debate on public policy matters, to create an archive of documents and data about state government and to help train a new generation of journalists