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June 29, 2006
Post reporter wins national press award
The National Press Club honored Ken Dixon, the Connecticut Post's state Capitol reporter, for his coverage of last year's campaign by the United Illuminating Co. to rid infestation of monk parakeets from their utility poles in southwestern Connecticut.
Dixon's entry included a column and series of articles about UI's attempt last fall to capture parakeets in West Haven, Milford, Stratford and Bridgeport. A crew from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which ac-companied UI workers, asphyxiated 179 parrots in November and December. UI suspended the program after the Darien-based Friends of Animals filed a lawsuit.
The 52-year-old Dixon, who has covered the state Capitol since 1994, will be given the Ann Cottrell Free award for animal reporting during the National Press Club's annual dinner on July 17.
A 1976 graduate of Ohio University, Dixon joined the newspaper in 1977 and has won numerous state and re-gional awards and twice was honored by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.
The Washington-based NPC judged 280 entries in two dozen categories of print and broadcast reporting. “At a time when journalism is under attack, the contest reminds us of the wonderful work that is done every day by thousands of reporters, editors, correspondents and producers,'' said Jonathan D. Salant, a re-porter for Bloomberg News who is president of the NPC.
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