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Mark Obmascik

Mark Obmascik
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Mark Obmascik

Mark Obmascik has been a journalist for two decades, most recently at the Denver Post, where he was lead writer for the newspaper's Pulitzer Prize in 2000 and winner of the 2003 National Press Club Award for environmental journalism. His freelance stories have been published in Outside and other magazines, and he has aired numerous political stories on public affairs and television news programs. An obsessed birder himself, he lives in Denver with his wife and sons.

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Dec 07, 2012
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Halfway to Heaven is now available in Hardcover
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Guidry News, February 21, 2013
...organization sponsored by the Rosenberg Library. The 2013 Galveston Reads selection, The Big Year written by prize-winning journalist Mark Obmascik chronicles the travel, exploits, and single-minded obsession of three competitive birders in their quest...
Denver Post, February 10, 2013
...things guns. Meet the authors Join award-winning local authors and journalists Dick Kreck ("Smaldone"), Kevin Vaughan ("The Ledge"), Mark Obmascik ("The Big Year") and Kirk Mitchell ("The Spin Doctor") for a free and fascinating discussion about what...
Florida Weekly, December 19, 2012
...2011 film “The Big Year.” The movie was loosely based on the book of the same name by Mark Obmascik that follows three birders competing to fill out their “life list” of birds spotted. Competitive birding can be fun — and some take it...
Florida Weekly, December 19, 2012
...2011 film “The Big Year.” The movie was loosely based on the book of the same name by Mark Obmascik that follows three birders competing to fill out their “life list” of birds spotted. Competitive birding can be fun — and some take it...
Inside Bay Area, September 4, 2012
...ll talk about his big year in 1998 - the basis for a book by Pulizer Prize-winning author Mark Obmascik as well as the fictionlized film account - and share the experience gained during more than 50 years of birding. A resident of Sugarcreek in northeast...
Westword, August 1, 2012
...that it chose for its own program: The Big Year. Written in 2004 by former Denver Post reporter Mark Obmascik, the nonfiction book tells the story of three men — one of whom, Stu Preissler, lives in Colorado — on a quest to see more bird species...
Boulder Daily Camera, June 4, 2013
...Price $10.00 ($7.00 Member)  Age Suitability None Specified Categories Community Talks & Lectures Tags chautauqua mark obmascik Tuesday, Jul 2 7:00p Chautauqua Community House and Terrace Boulder, CO Every year more than 500,000 people...
Huffington Post, May 17, 2013
...political ads began in 1998 as a series called "Spotcheck," done in conjunction with Denver Post reporter Mark Obmascik, according to Ryan. "In the 2002 cycle, we continued to work with the Post but called the project 'Adwatch,'" Ryan wrote. "Adam...
Denver Post, May 7, 2013
...Public Library and other locations in Mesa Verde County, Arizona and Utah; 970-565-1151 Events include a lecture by Mark Obmascik, author of "The Big Year," birding trips on the Dove Creek Trail (a part of the Colorado Birding Trail), Old Spanish Trail,...
Cortez Journal, May 3, 2013
...Mountain Mesa Verde Birding Festival will include five days of events, capped by a banquet with keynote speaker Mark Obmascik, author of The Big Year. In birding parlance, a "big year" is a year-long informal but intense competition by birders to see, or...
Independence Examiner, January 11, 2013
...is borrowed from the book ?The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession,? by Mark Obmascik. The story is about three obsessed birders who travel far and wide to spot species of North American birds. A 2011 Hollywood movie was also based on the...
Guidry News, January 9, 2013
...Galveston reading. This years book is The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik. Prize-winning journalist Mark Obmascik chronicles the 1998 North American Big Year, the greatest or perhaps the worst birding competition of...
Independence Examiner, January 4, 2013
...is borrowed from the book ?The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession,? by Mark Obmascik. The story is about three obsessed birders who travel far and wide to spot species of North American birds. A 2011 Hollywood movie was also based on the...