Mark Curtis (broadcaster)

Mark 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 January 20, 2009, coinciding with the Inauguration of Barack Obama. 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. He is currently the Chief Political Reporter and investigative reporter for WLNE-TV ABC6, the ABC affiliate in Providence, Rhode Island. Previously, he was host of Comcast Newsmakers on HLN in the San Francisco Bay Area via local insertion.

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, D.C. 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 and on KGO-TV ABC7's 7 Live program in San Francisco; He also has contributed occasionally on KQED-TV 9, KPIX-TV5, and KRON-TV4 in San Francisco, as well as KTXL-TV Fox 40 News in Sacramento; and KTLA-TV5 in Los Angeles.

In January 2010, Curtis moved to Rhode Island and joined WLNE-TV ABC6 in Providence as the weekend evening news anchor and Chief Political Reporter. He would later be promoted to co-anchor of Good Morning Providence, the station's weekday morning newscast, until March 2012. Beginning in the summer of 2011, Curtis took part in a weekly cooking segment on Good Morning Providence with meteorologist Steve Cascione and co-anchor Doreen Scanlon, titled the Curtis/Cascione Cook-Off. In January 2012, Curtis began a 90-day Transformation Challenge at Fabulous Fitness in North Kingstown, Rhode Island in an effort to lose 30 pounds that he admitted to gaining in 2011. His progress was chronicled on ABC6 News.

Curtis is an occasional newspaper reporter, covering the Inauguration in Washington, D.C. for the Danville Weekly and Pleasanton Weekly in California, as well as writing for his own blog at MarkCurtisMedia.com, which includes his weekly political column, "The Sunday Political Brunch."

Prior to moving to California, Curtis was a TV Correspondent in Washington, D.C. 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, Florida 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); and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from St. Mary's College of California in Moraga, California (2012). He has guest lectured at many universities and is currently an Adjunct Lecturer in Communication at Rhode Island College.