Mark Mahoney
Mark Mahoney, then a reporter at the Voice News in Hickman, earned a first place award in the weekly category of the 2010 Outstanding Young Nebraska Journalist Contest.
The competition is sponsored by Zean and Marilyn Carney, former publishers of a number of southeast Nebraska newspapers. The award was made at the Nebraska Press Association convention in Kearney on April 16.
Mahoney, now with Enterprise Publishing in Blair, received the same award in 2009.
Here’s what the judge said about Mahoney’s work:
“Mahoney’s story about a school bus crash began with a 10-year-old boy, neck hurting from the accident, running down a gravel road to find someone who could call for aid for the other accident victims.
“All of Mahoney’s stories are rich in details. When a quarter horse owned by an area breeder gave birth to twin foals that survived, Mahoney not only tells the reader such births are rare, but he tells them how rare: Only one in 10,000 births are twins and the survival rate for one or both is only 20 percent.
“In another story, Mahoney described the unusual chain of events that made it possible for a phone call to a Firth woman to solve two burglaries in Des Moines, Iowa.”
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