Mark Hibbs

Mark Hibbs is editor of Coastal Review Online. A native of coastal North Carolina, Hibbs joined Coastal Review Online in 2015, after more than 20 years with the Carteret County News-Times, where he served as a staff writer, photographer, business editor, and assistant to the editor. Hibbs has won numerous awards for his reporting, including N.C. Press Association awards, the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association's Friend of the Coast Media Award, and the U.S. Small Business Administration's 2009 Small Business Journalist of the Year Award for the Southeast Region. He is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Wilmington.