•   Bruce William Deckert is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Today Publishing — he embarked on his professional media career in 1996, including 17 years with ESPN.com and ESPN Digital Media — 
plus a productive run as a newspaper editor and reporter for the Journal Register Company aka JRC ​

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     In 2018 Bruce ​established Today Publishing — this up-and-coming media outlet produces Today Magazine, our monthly publication, and Today Online, our digital news site​ 

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     A Connecticut resident for three-plus decades, he lived in Simsbury for about a quarter-century — so he appreciates the distinctiveness and history and aesthetic appeal of this amazing state and the Farmington Valley — he began his post-college journalism career at the Post ... not the New York or Washington outfits, but the Wethersfield Post in Connecticut 

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     The Post was part of the former Imprint Newspapers group that produced distinct weekly papers for four Valley towns and seven other towns in Greater Hartford 

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     So his career in the media realm has come full circle — from hyper-local community-based journalism to the Worldwide Leader In Sports and back to community journalism — and he has felt invigorated, at intervals, by this vocational geometric convergence 

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     An award-winning journalist, Bruce was born in Newark and raised in Bloomfield and Plainfield — to clarify, the Bloomfield and Plainfield in New Jersey, not their namesakes in Connecticut — his first news job: Star-Ledger paperboy — yes, the Star-Ledger based in Newark

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     He graduated from Plainfield High School and Massachusetts-based Gordon College — from kindergarten through college, he attended church at Willow — not Willow Creek, the so-called megachurch in Illinois, but the more modest Willow Grove Presbyterian in good old Jersey 

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​By the way — Bruce believes​ all ​we mere human beings merit awards when we're leveraging our God-given gifts for goo​d