Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative newsman Mary Hynes is among 4 journalists who were selected to beryllium inducted into this year’s people of the Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame.
The Nevada Press Foundation announced Wednesday that Hynes on with erstwhile longtime Review-Journal sports columnist Ron Kantowski, The Nevada Independent newsman Howard Stutz and Las Vegas Sun editorial cartoonist Mike Smith volition marque up the foundation’s 2026 Hall of Fame class. An induction ceremonial is scheduled oregon Sept. 26 astatine Springs Preserve.
Hynes has spent much than 3 decades successful the Review-Journal’s newsroom successful a assortment of roles and has helped usher sum ranging from O.J. Simpson’s apprehension and condemnation successful Southern Nevada to the propulsion to unfastened the Yucca Mountain atomic discarded repository and different newsworthy events successful Las Vegas history, Review-Journal Executive Editor Glenn Cook said successful Hynes’ information letter.
“Mary’s beardown consciousness of close and incorrect and a content that institutions had an work to service the radical alternatively of themselves was evident from her aboriginal days covering section governments,” Cook wrote.
Hynes said connected Wednesday she was shocked to larn astir her induction into the hall.
“It is genuinely an grant to beryllium recognized successful this manner,” Hynes said. “It is genuinely besides much astir the enactment than receiving recognition, but the designation is precise nice.”
Hynes: ‘I person ever tended to situation authority’
Hynes was honored arsenic 1 of the state’s apical journalists by the Nevada Press Foundation successful 2025, successful portion for reporting connected the campaign of a convicted felon who was moving for authorities Assembly. Hynes besides earned the grant successful 1994, Cook said.
Hynes started astatine the Review-Journal successful 1988 and was named Assistant City Editor successful 1997 earlier becoming the City Editor from 2000 to 2012. She near the Review-Journal successful 2012 but returned successful 2019 and helped pb sum of the COVID-19 pandemic earlier joining the investigative team.
More recently, Hynes has investigated the fiscal dealings of a Las Vegas nonprofit and sexual battle claims astatine an elite Summerlin backstage school.
“In 2025, Mary was named Nevada’s Outstanding Journalist again, 31 years aft she archetypal received the honor,” Cook said. “The award, which astir ever goes to a reporter, was grounds that alternatively than dilatory down successful the aboriginal stages of her career, the occurrence successful Mary’s belly burns conscionable arsenic blistery arsenic it did erstwhile she graduated from college.”
Hynes, a postgraduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, said her enactment is the effect of being funny astir the satellite astir her.
“I wage attraction to my ain instincts and my ain reactions to things,” Hynes said. “If I observe thing and it doesn’t look oregon consciousness right, I look much intimately astatine that. And I person ever tended to situation authority. It’s conscionable however I’m built.”
Inductees correspond ‘decades of outstanding journalism’
Kantowski retired from the Review-Journal astatine the extremity of 2022 aft spending much than 35 years penning astir sports successful Las Vegas.
Kantowski has covered UNLV and precocious schoolhouse athletics, motorsports, boxing, and galore nonrecreational franchises and was named the 2016 Nevada Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.
Nevada Press Foundation Executive Director Brian Allfrey said Kantowski has helped seizure the improvement of Las Vegas from a marketplace without large league teams into 1 of the nation’s astir important sports cities.
“Kantowski built a bequest not simply by reporting scores, but by uncovering the people, wit and meaning down Nevada sports,” Allfrey said.
Stutz, a erstwhile Review-Journal unit writer, is 1 of the state’s astir respected reporters connected gaming, tourism and business, Allfrey said, adding that colleagues person commended Stutz’s mentorship, professionalism and generosity with younger journalists. Stutz has besides worked for the Sun and was enforcement exertion of CDC Gaming Reports earlier joining The Nevada Independent.
Smith has been the Sun’s editorial cartoonist since 1983 and uses crisp ocular commentary to papers much than 4 decades of Nevada and nationalist national life, Allfrey said. Smith’s cartoons person been nationally syndicated and has had a play cartoon that appeared for much than 20 years successful USA Today.
In 2013, much than 13,000 of Smith’s cartoons were donated to UNLV successful a bid to sphere a large ocular grounds of Nevada journalism and history, Allfrey said.
The Nevada Newspaper Hall of Fame is administered by the Nevada Press Foundation and honors those who person made a important and lasting publication to Nevada’s paper industry, Allfrey said.
“Together, the 4 inductees correspond decades of outstanding journalism, enactment and work to Nevada communities,” Allfrey said. “Their careers see distinguished enactment successful reporting, editing, sports journalism, concern sum and newsroom leadership.”
Contact Casey Harrison astatine Review-Journal.com. Follow @Casey_Harrison1 connected X.
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