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Mark Curtis 
Born 1959 Occupation Author, journalist, television personality Nationality American
markcurtismedia.com/about/mark-curtis-0Mark Corrigan Curtis is a well-known American TV journalist, author and political analyst. In January 2009, Curtis published his first book; a first-person account of the historic 2008 Presidential campaign. “Age of Obama: A Reporter’s Journey with Clinton, McCain and Obama in the Making of the President 2008” was released by Nimble Books, LLC on Inauguration Day. In 2010, the book won an International Book Award in the Current Events: Political/Social category and was a finalist in the Non-Fiction Narrative category.[1][2] He is currently a weekday morning news co-anchor and Chief Political Reporter for WLNE-TV, the ABC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island. Previously, he was host of Comcast Newsmakers on Channel 57 throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.[3]
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Career
Mark Curtis is perhaps best known for the 15 years he spent with KTVU-TV 2/Cox Broadcasting in Oakland, California. Curtis served as Chief Washington, DC Correspondent from 1993 to 1999; Morning News co-anchor from 1999 to 2007; and as a freelance reporter and political analyst, through the balance of the 2008 campaign as he traveled from Iowa and New Hampshire in January, through the entire primary season ending in South Dakota and Montana in June. He also covered both political conventions for KTVU. Curtis is also a regular political contributor on KGO-AM 810 in San Francisco; KTXL-TV Fox 40 News in Sacramento; KTLA-TV5 in Los Angeles. He also has contributed occasionally on KQED-TV 9, KPIX-TV5 and KRON-TV4 in San Francisco.
Curtis is an occasional newspaper reporter, covering the Inauguration in Washington, DC for the Danville Weekly and Pleasanton Weekly in California, as well as writing for his own blog at MarkCurtisMedia.com.
Throughout the summer of 2011, Curtis took part in a weekly cooking segment on WLNE's Good Morning Providence newscast with meteorologist Steve Cascione and co-anchor Doreen Scanlon, titled the Curtis/Cascione Cook-Off.[4]
Prior to moving to California, Curtis was a TV Correspondent in Washington, DC for all stations owned by Cox Broadcasting, including WSB Atlanta, WSOC Charlotte, WFTV Orlando, KIRO Seattle, WPXI Pittsburgh, WHIO Dayton, WKBD Detroit, and KFOX in El Paso. His year-long coverage of the Impeachment of President Bill Clinton, earned him a promotion to KTVU as co-anchor of the Morning News.
Curtis is one of a select group of national reporters who have spent time working in Congress. He served as a Legislative Aide and Congressional Fellow through the American Political Science Association, in the offices of Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Herb Kohl, (D-WI), 1992-93.
Curtis became a nationally known journalist in 1987, when he was at WEAR-TV 3 (ABC) in Pensacola, Florida. He won numerous awards for his five-years of coverage in what came to be known as the “Gulf Breeze UFO Sightings”, with his work appearing on NBC’s “Unsolved Mysteries” with Robert Stack, “A Current Affair” and in Time/Life Books.
His other broadcasting work includes stints at WRUF-AM/FM Radio in Gainesville, Florida; WUFT-TV5 (PBS) in Gainesville, FL and WCJB-TV 20 (ABC) in Ocala, Florida.
Early career
Mark Curtis is a former stand-up comedian, who once worked with famed political comedian and fellow Milwaukee native Will Durst. Both men now work and live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and still collaborate.
Curtis was also a professional musician in the late 1970s and early 1980, touring the Midwest “bar band” circuit with “The Strays”, “Mike and the Mysteries”, and “Fat Tuesday”. He was also employed by famed jingle writer Terry Sweet.
He got his first paid “radio” job, dispatching police and fire calls for the Village of Elm Grove, Wisconsin. At the age of 19, he became a disc jockey and later Program Director for WMUR-AM radio at Marquette University.
Biographical Information
Born: May 16, 1959, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Curtis is the son of the late Dr. William C. Curtis, M.D., a prominent Milwaukee physician and the late Mary Beth Curtis. He is the middle of seven children.
Education
Curtis holds a B.A. in Broadcast Communication from Marquette University (1981); an M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Florida (1986); he is currently working on his Ed.D. in Educational Leadership at St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, California. He has guest lectured at many universities.
References
- ^ The 2010 International Book Awards Results
- ^ "Age of Obama: A Reporter's Journey..." - Wins International Book Awards!
- ^ About Curtis
- ^ "Cook Off". abc6.com. http://www.abc6.com/category/220409/cook-off. Retrieved 14 September 2011.
External links
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- University of Florida alumni
- Marquette University alumni
- 1959 births
- Living people
- San Francisco, California television anchors
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