Patch Editor Elected CSWA President

Tim Jensen, an editor with the Patch Media Corp., has been elected president of the Connecticut Sports Writers’ Alliance (CSWA), after serving as vice president the past three years.

He succeeds Matt Conyers of the Hartford Courant as president.

A veteran of more than three decades in the media industry, Jensen was founding editor of Enfield Patch in 2010, and currently oversees 12 Patch sites, ranging from Enfield to Berlin.

He has chaired the annual Gold Key Dinner, one of the state’s most prestigious sports honors, since 2015. Among recent Gold Key recipients are Craig Janney, Marlon Starling, Dwight Freeney, Butch Johnson and Tracy Lis.

The Gold Key Dinner was inaugurated in 1940, with baseball legend Connie Mack and golf superstar Bobby Jones among the initial honorees. A roster of stellar names have received the award since then, including Gordie Howe, Willie Pep, Joe Cronin, Ron Francis, Geno Auriemma, Julius Boros, Andy Robustelli, Joan Joyce, Bill Rodgers, Rebecca Lobo, Brian Leetch, Kristine Lilly and Calvin Murphy.

Jensen said his election to the presidency is an honor made especially more satisfying by the fact that his late great-uncle, Earl Yost, served as Alliance president in 1959.

“My Uncle Earl was sports editor of the Manchester Herald for 39 years, and he was the reason I became interested in journalism in the first place,” Jensen said. “He was one of the gentlest giants ever, and he was highly respected by everyone associated with Connecticut sports. Following in his footsteps is indeed an honor.”

Jensen also serves as vice chairman of the Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame. He is the proud dad of two children: Alex, a freshman at Castleton University in Vermont, and Mia, a sophomore at Enfield High School.

Other officers elected to lead the CSWA are Rich Gregory of the Danbury News-Times, vice president; Ken Lipshez of the Meriden Record-Journal, treasurer; and Peter Vander Veer of Hearsam-Acorn Newspapers, financial secretary.

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