Richard Urban is a versatile content creator with experience in newspaper and magazine journalism and corporate marketing communications. He is an award-winning journalist who transformed his ability to tackle a wide range of subjects accurately, with context and perspective, to creating marketing communications that include short-form newsletter articles, web copy, scripted podcasts, and long-form white papers and industry reports. He assists organizations in improving written communications and in targeting key media to identify opportunities. In addition, he is the author of a lavishly illustrated coffee-table book, Connecticut: Chartered for Progress, which was published in 2002. 

Mr. Urban's current freelance activities include managing employee newsletters for a New England regional bank, and volunteering as a writer for the Fiesta Bowl website. 

He has won several national and regional awards:

• "Ultimate Penalty: The Story of William Tines, Tennessee's Last 'Dead Man Walking,'" Nashville Scene, November 1996. Best Feature Story, Association of Alternative Newsweeklies 

• "This Land Is Your Land," Connecticut Magazine, December 2011 article, examined the state's vast real estate portfolio. First Place, Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

• "Pension Bomb," Connecticut Magazine, February 2010, reported the implications of Connecticut's unfunded obligation to its 53,000 active employees and 40,000 retirees. First Place, Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

• "Disappearing Doctors," Connecticut Magazine, June 2010, described the demands on the dwindling population of primary-care physicians. First Place, Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists

• "Justice Delayed" Connecticut Magazine, May 2010, examined the reasons it takes so long to bring capital cases to trial. Second Place, Connecticut chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists