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The funeral service for Thomas J. Condon, a former Hartford Courant and Connecticut Mirror journalist who died early Tuesday, is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 20, at St. Patrick-St. Anthony Catholic Church in Hartford.

Visiting hours will take place at the church, at 285 Church St. in Hartford, on Thursday, Sept. 19, from 4 to 7 p.m.

The Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Sept. 20. It will be livestreamed on the church’s website, and Molloy Funeral Home will also provide a link.

Condon was a newspaperman for more than 50 years in Connecticut. During his decades at The Courant, he was a bureau chief, investigative reporter, columnist and editorial writer, among other responsibilities. At the CT Mirror, Condon covered urban and regional issues.

As CT Mirror's Managing Editor Stephen helps manage and support a staff of 16 reporters.  His career in daily journalism includes 20 years at The Hartford Courant, where he served as a member of the editorial board, data editor, breaking news editor and bureau chief.  Prior to that Stephen was city editor at the Casper Star-Tribune in Casper, Wyo., and the editor of the Daily Press in Craig, Colo.  He has won many awards for editorial writing, data journalism and breaking news. While he was breaking news editor, The Courant was a named finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news for its coverage of the Sandy Hook shootings.  Busemeyer is a Koeppel Journalism Fellow at Wesleyan University, where he teaches data journalism, and he has also taught at the University of Hartford, the University of Connecticut and the University of Colorado.