Alaine Griffin

Alaine Griffin is a reporter at the Hartford Courant. 

She joined the Courant in 2000 after working as a journalist in New Haven, Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina and California. She has won news and feature writing awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and New England Associated Press News Executives Association, including top honors for her coverage of the 2010 trial of Cheshire home-invasion suspect Steven Hayes. She has served on the Connecticut Judicial Branch's Public Access Task Force, charged with examining the openness and public accessibility of the courts, and is an adjunct professor of journalism at Southern Connecticut State University.