NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Peter Mallory, co-founder of NSBNews.net with Henry Frederick, won an award from the Florida Press Club for blog writing.
Mallory finished third in the 2011 press club "blog writing" category and with the win, NSBNews.net became the first 24/7 exclusively online newspaper to win an award in the state of Florida.
Mallory's three award-winning column entries dealt with an essay on author Ayn Rand as a backdrop to describing the tough economic times we are living in today, a personal write-up on his son winning a judgeship and how New Smyrna Beach taxpayers are hammered financially for planning excesses.
Here are Mallory's three winning entries:
Frederick said it's prophetic that NSBNews.net would get recognition from the Florida Press Club, with the majority of its awards geared to traditional print media.
"While other columnists throughout Florida will receive awards for blogging, those were written for traditional newspapers," Frederick said. "Peter's award truly represents online blogging."
Mallory graduated from New Smyrna Beach High School in 1953 and then obtained bachelor's and master's degrees from MIT in 1957 and 1958. He spent the next 34 years in the field of electronic communications with a concentration in the areas of signal synchronization and detection and the area of error correction codes for the federal government. He has published six papers and has six patents in the area of signal synchronization.
Mallory served on the board of Daytona State College for two terms as well as the Utilities Commission of New Smyrna Beach for three terms, where he was chairman for two years. He was a little league, football and baseball coach for five years. Mallory has given guest lectures at the high school and community college in the areas of economics and mathematics.
His son Peter, for whom one of his blogs is designated, is a circuit judge in Panama City, and his daughter, Betsy Mallory, lives in Titusville. He has two granddaughters, Mallory and Mary Christine. Mallory's late wife, Jackie, was very active in politics and was president of the Southeast Volusia Republican Club for two terms. She served on the hospital board on two different occasions. The Hospital annex was dedicated to her on her retirement. Jackie Mallory was active in raising money for the American Cancer Society.
Peter Mallory's hobbies and interests include American History, especially that of World War II; economics, foreign languages, swimming, spy novels and watching football.
About the Byline Writer:
Sera King is associate publisher of Headline Surfer, the award-winning 24/7 internet news outlet serving greater Daytona Beach, Sanford, and Orlando, FL via HeadlineSurfer.com since 2008. King also is a byline writer, videographer and cartoonist for the media outlet. King received her bachelor's degree in Business Administration (3.84 gpa) from Ana G. Mendez University in Orlando in 2008.
Headline Surfer LLC is published by Henry Frederick, Central Florida's award-winning journalist.
