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 with earned media placement and storytelling strategies, network television-level video production, and crisis communications services.• 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 tech startup C-suite leaders.• 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 News, to chief security officer (CSO) for a national organization; and driving innovative market research at the world's busiest airport. We provide public safety leaders and their departments, offices and agencies with cutting-edge media strategies, PIO and media training, comprehensive analysis of their communications plans and crisis communications response.

• 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 social media to enhance market coverage; investigative and verification techniques, creating new video, audio, and text content outside of the broadcast; boosting viewer engagement with the news brand; crafting successful content for breaking news, beats, and features; utilizing new tech tools and strategies; and social media standards.

• 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 recruitment ads, leading interview panels, & trainings. • 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, Washington Post, & Politico.• 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.• Led creation of new social media initiatives at Hearst TV to expand NIU reach & engagement, including distinct hashtags for investigative stories & multi-platform campaigns.• Winner of Al Neuharth Award for Innovation in Investigative Journalism from NLGJA, 2020 *&* 2021 Excellence in Financial Journalism Award, 2019, 2020, & 2021 SPJ Dateline Awards’ Correspondent Award for DC-based coverage for outside-the-Beltway audience. • FOIA/PACER public records expert• Created first internship program to grow next generation of journalists. Led external collaboration and partnership with Factcheck.org on a fact-checking series.

• 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 draft short- and long-term strategic goals.• 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.

• 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.• Proficient in growing Twitter audiences: 3.1 million+ impressions of @malbertnews tweets in 2016; up 15.1% from 2015.

• 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, source and beat development, shooting video, editing stories, social media, and enterprise reporting. • Critiqued the stories the journalists produced during the course.

• 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/

• 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 Dayton, OH; and various assignments in Washington, D.C.. Iraq, Kuwait, Pakistan, and Kenya.• 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.• Skillful user of social media to enhance coverage, mine stories, and pounce on trends; had more Twitter followers than 75% of 1,000 Twin Cities journalists listed in 2012 ranking• Honored for military reporting with the Minnesota National Guard’s Superior Civilian Service Award, the Guard’s highest civilian honor and the first time it was given to a journalist.• Made public appearances: journalism panels (including IRE), community events, and local schools.

• 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.

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