Mark Albert Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

• Founder and CEO of innovative media advisory company offering targeted media and journalism training and coaching to corporate, government, and individual clients across the United States and internationally, along.
• Created firm, crafted pitch deck/one-sheet/website to build client list and training curriculum.
• Advised cybersecurity cohort on crisis communications response to reputational incident, former U.S. homeland security official on earned media opportunities regarding U.S.-Mexico border security, and media training to.
• Earned certification as LGBT Business Enterprise from NGLCC; CBE, LBE, SBE, DBE, ROB certifications from the District of Columbia; and SLBE certification from Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
• Founder and host of 'Media Mastery Experts LIVE!' media training, public speaking and leadership communications bootcamp.
• Keynote public speaking events.

Mark is a founding partner of Public Safety Media Strategies LLC, a media consultancy. Our team has vast national and international experience in public safety, media, communications, law and security: from advising the president of the United States inside the White House, to a senior role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; from on-air at CBS.

Hanoi, Hanoi, VN

• Teach courses on creating digital news content for multi-platform, innovative journalism and increasing social media engagement to journalists at Vietnam’s premier broadcast network.
• Designed and wrote the curriculum, syllabus, daily lesson plans, and assignments to provide hands-on instruction in all facets of multi-platform journalism, including: fact-checking, developing beats and sources on.

New York, NY, US

• Led the creation of Hearst Television’s first-ever National Investigative Unit, growing to six direct reports.
• Responsibility for overseeing source development, story pitches, research, creating content plans for localizing national investigations for TV & radio stations within station group. Includes managing budget, writing.
• Conceived, created, & hosted nationwide broadcast specials for Hearst TV, encompassing NIU programming on: the coronavirus pandemic, cyber vulnerabilities in health care, election security, & hate in the homeland.
• Beat first year goal of 10-12 investigative stories with 28 stories turned; broke stories about the FBI, DNI, FAA, DHS and other federal agencies, with our major investigations quoted in other media, including CNN.
• In first year at Hearst, built NIU profile to be included in invitation-only briefings at FBI, DHS, CISA, Pentagon, alongside biggest U.S. news outlets
• Conceived & led execution of first NIU podcast & broke down silos between TV & Newspapers divisions, ensuring broader distribution & visibility of NIU reporting and internal collaboration.

Evanston, IL, US

• Helped teach Spring quarter cohort of graduate students about daily and long-form news reporting, broadcast journalism, and multi-media coverage.
• Assisted in copy editing Medill News Service's daily coverage.
• Mentored students in their post-college job placements

• Motivational, strategic leader of an online newsroom covering travel and transportation issues; set the journalistic vision, and priorities for the organization; foster out-of-the-box thinking; manage expenses; and.
• Recruit and manage a team of 12 contributing journalists; assign and approve story pitches, edit their work, lead breaking news and investigative coverage; edit weekly newsletter.
• Create budgets, develop content and business partnerships and social media campaigns for greater engagement
• 375% month-over-month growth of pageviews (August from July 2017).
• Host, produce, and edit engaging podcasts interviewing news leaders on a broad range of subjects.

New York, US

• Covered national and international news for all CBS News platforms, including the CBS Evening News, CBS This Morning, CBS Sunday Morning, CBS Radio, and CBSN.
• Reported across the country on breaking news, enterprise stories, business, investigative, and features.
• International reporting on unique, impactful, and compelling stories from Peru, Australia, and Taiwan.
• Broke numerous stories, including getting the first interview with the Dakota Access Pipeline CEO.
• Aggressive pitcher of original reporting to all broadcasts and platforms that emphasized the CBS News brand, standards, balance, and ethics.
• Expert in FOIA, data records, navigating government entities to yield valuable sources of information.

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Taught broadcast journalism in Pakistan to professional journalists from across the country at the Karachi-based Center for Excellence in Journalism and acted as mentor.
• Designed and wrote the curriculum, syllabus, daily lesson plans, and assignments to provide hands-on instruction in all facets of broadcast journalism, including: investigative reporting, writing copy that sparkles.
• Critiqued the stories the journalists produced during the course.

Washington, DC, US

• Accepted into prestigious, year-long fellowship focused on reporting on all three branches of government.http://nationalpress.org/programs-and-resources/program/paul-miller-washington-reporting-fellowship-2014-2015/

Washington, District Of Columbia, US

• Reported on local, regional, and national news for all WUSA 9 platforms.
• Developed, researched, and executed enterprise story ideas for original and investigative reporting.

• Peabody Award-winning reporter for investigative series; covered local, regional, and national news on-air, online, and on radio.
• Recognized across the Minneapolis/St. Paul market for investigative stories, earning Best TV Newscaster honors by the City Pages because “He holds people accountable…” (http://bit.ly/1isxAJK)
• Earned go-to status among producers and as a newsroom leader for investigative and enterprise journalism, developing and cultivating sources inside the cops/courts beat, government, & Legislature.
• Traveled across the country for breaking news; experience includes: the Milwaukee Sikh Temple Shootings; the Virginia Tech massacre; the Upper Midwest floods; the 2008 pick of Sarah Palin on John McCain's ticket in.
• Pakistan Fellow, International Center for Journalists; two-week immersive visit to Pakistan in January-February 2013; won a regional Emmy Award for a series of reports Mark shot in Pakistan.
• Worked with web producers and graphic designers to build, code, and produce additional content for interactive web pages on investigative and in-depth stories.

• Specialized in enterprise journalism and developing sources in the police and political beats.
• Go-to reporter for breaking news and political reporting.
• Honored by the Michigan Bar Association with its Excellence in Legal Journalism and the Advancement of Justice award.
• Covered the first elections since the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq in January 2005 with West Michigan service members and posted a daily blog while embedded with the US Navy and Marines.
• Traveled throughout Mexico for an award-winning series on manufacturing jobs leaving West Michigan on a one-way ticket south of the border.
• Main male fill-in anchor; three months as evening anchor included writing & voicing daily radio cut-ins.

Reporter & Weekend Anchor/Producer

Correspondent

Englewood Cliffs, NJ, US

Intern, CNBC Los Angeles News Bureau

Universal City, California, US

Intern, KNBC-TV Newsroom Satellite Department

Los Angeles, US

News reader/writer for hourly live cut-ins.