Courant Columnist Tom Condon Wins National Press Award

Hartford Courant journalist Tom Condon has been named the winner of a national award for his writing about cities.

Condon, a columnist and deputy editorial page editor, is the 2013 winner of the AEJMC Gene Burd Urban Journalism Award, given annually to recognize “high-quality urban media reporting, critical analysis and research … in urban life and culture.” The award is named for longtime journalist and journalism professor Gene Burd, and is a joint venture of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the country’s largest membership organization of journalism educators, and the Urban Journalism Foundation, which supports a variety of city-related programs.

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