The staff of the Hartford Courant has won an award for deadline reporting from the American Society of News Editors. The award recognizes the paper’s coverage of last summer’s massacre at the Hartford Distributors Inc. that left nine people dead.
Minutes after Omar Thornton began gunning down co-workers at a beer warehouse, the Courant broke the story. But the newspaper’s reporting involved far more than getting it first. The Courant created a riveting narrative based on eyewitness and police accounts and then went on to unlock the story of what drove Thornton to commit the worst mass murder in Hartford’s history.
