Mara Klecker
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As seen in:
The Minnesota Star Tribune,
Medium,
MSN,
Yahoo News,
Aol,
Yahoo Finance,
SFGate,
U.S. News and World Report,
Miami Herald,
Yahoo,
Washington Times
and
Covers:
human interest journalism, narrative journalism, general assignment
K-12 education reporter @StarTribune. Formerly @OWHnews. Grad of @Unl_CoJMC. Tips about schools? mara.klecker@startribune.com
Awards
Hearst Journalism Award
2014 - 2nd place, Personality Profile
Society of Professional Journalists Award
Mark of Excellence, Feature Writing, Large School Division
Jim Denney Feature Writing Scholarship
2015 - Feature writing
The scholarship, presented in memory of longtime Omaha World-Herald reporter Jim Denney, is given to students who show an aptitude for feature writing based on three submitted examples of their work.
Hearst Journalism Award
2015 - 7th place, Team Multimedia
For "La Cienega," a partner-produced multimedia documentary about 13 elderly villagers who've chosen to die where they lived--in the Ecuadorian countryside.