In the category of good news/bad news, we have a journalism item for you. Five employees of The Houston Chronicle won first place recognition over the weekend in the annual Texas Associated Press Managing Editors journalism competition, the most ballyhooed in-state contest in the insular, self-congratulatory world of newspapering.Unfortunately, two of the five Chron winners were among those laid off a month ago.We're speaking of Claudia Kolker, who won a first place prize for editorial writing,
