Tom Condon
Columnist, The Hartford Courant
Tom Condon is a columnist, editorial writer and editor of Place, a
Sunday Commentary section of The Hartford Courant. Place focuses
on architecture, planning, transportation and other aspects of the
built and natural environment. The Hartford Courant, a Pulitzer
Prize-winning newspaper, is the oldest continuously published newspaper
in the nation.
Since joining The Courant in 1971, he has served in a variety of
reporting and editing positions, ranging from general assignment
reporter to New Haven bureau chief to special projects editor. He was a
news columnist for 18 years, and is a longtime student of Hartford past
and present.
Condon has won more than 20 journalism awards, including the New
England Society of Newspaper Editors Master Reporter Award. Tom is also
the co-author of “School Rights,” a book about parent activism in
schools. He and his wife, Anne, are the authors of “Legal Lunacy,” a
book of funny laws. Tom’s work has appeared in Northeast Magazine,
Family Life, The Harvard Business Review, The International Herald
Tribune and other publications.