Mark Curtis Biography
Mark Curtis is an Emmy Award-winning television journalist, author, and political analyst who co-anchors with Caribe Devine for 12News at 5, 6, and 10. For more than two decades, Mark has been a member of Team 12.
How old is Mark Curtis?- Age
Curtis is 62 years old as of 2021. He was born in 1959 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
Mark Curtis Education
Curtis received his B.A. in Broadcast Communication from Marquette University in 1981, an A.S. in Computer Studies from the Community College of Rhode Island in 2016, an M.A. in Mass Communication from the University of Florida in 1986, and an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership from St. Mary’s College of California in Moraga, California (2012).
How tall is Mark Curtis?- Height
Curtis the Emmy Award-winning journalist stands at a height of 5 feet 7 inches tall.
Mark Curtis Family – Parents
He was born in 1959 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The son of Dr. William C. Curtis, M.D, was a prominent Milwaukee physician, mother was Mary Beth Curtis. He is born into a family of seven children.
Mark Curtis Wife – Married
Curtis is a happily married man. He is married to his loving wife Abby. The couple has three children.
Mark Curtis Books
Curtis released his debut book, a first-person account of the historic 2008 Presidential campaign, in January 2009. Nimble Books, LLC released “Age of Obama: A Reporter’s Journey with Clinton, McCain, and Obama in the Making of the President 2008” on January 20, 2009, to coincide with Barack Obama’s inauguration. The book was a nominee in the Non-Fiction Narrative category and received an International Book Award in the Current Events: Political/Social category[8] in 2010.
Mark Curtis 12News -Career
Curtis began his broadcasting career in Florida, where he worked at Gainesville’s WRUF-AM/FM Radio and WUFT-TV5 (PBS), and Ocala’s WCJB-TV 20 (ABC). In 1987, while working at WEAR-TV 3 (ABC) in Pensacola, he became a nationally recognized journalist. Between 1989 and 1992, he earned multiple prizes for his five-year coverage of what became known as the Gulf Breeze UFO Sightings. On NBC’s Unsolved Mysteries with Robert Stack, A Current Affair, and Time-Life Books, his work was featured. Curtis received the Responsibility in Journalism Award from the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (CSICOP) in 1991 for the Gulf Breeze event, which exposed trick photography.
Curtis is a former stand-up comedian who collaborated with Will Durst, a political comic from Milwaukee. Both guys currently reside and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, and they continue to cooperate together. Curtis was also a professional musician in the late 1970s and early 1980s, performing with “The Strays,” “Mike and the Mysteries,” and “Fat Tuesday” on the Midwest “bar band” circuit. Terry Sweet, a jingle writer, also hired him. He acquired his first paid “radio” job in the Village of Elm Grove, Wisconsin, dispatching police and fire calls. He began his career as a disc jockey and eventually Program Director for WMUR-AM radio at Marquette University when he was 19 years old. While at WMUR Radio he co-hosted the “Bob and Mark Show” with fellow student Bob Odenkirk, now of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul.
Curtis is one of a small group of national journalists who have worked in Congress. Through the American Political Science Association, he worked as a Legislative Aide and Congressional Fellow in the offices of Rep. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. Herb Kohl (D-WI). Curtis is best known for his 15 years as a reporter and anchor at KTVU-TV2, a former Cox Media Group station and FOX affiliate in the San Francisco Bay Area. For Cox-owned stations, he was Chief Washington, D.C. Correspondent. He traveled from Iowa and New Hampshire in January, through the whole primary season, culminating in South Dakota and Montana in June, as a Morning News co-anchor, freelance reporter, and political analyst.
Curtis became the weekend evening news anchor and Chief Political Reporter at WLNE-TV ABC6 in Providence, Rhode Island. He went on to anchor the ABC affiliate’s morning and evening newscasts on weekdays and at 5 p.m. on weeknights. He also served as a replacement host for ABC6 News On the Record, a weekend public affairs program. While covering the conventions, he also acted as a correspondent for all of WLNE’s parent company Citadel Communications’ stations (WOI-DT in Des Moines, Iowa, WHBF-TV in Rock Island, Illinois, KLKN in Lincoln, Nebraska, and KCAU-TV in Sioux City, Iowa). In March of 2015, Curtis left WLNE. He featured as a panelist on two episodes of the public affairs program A Lively Experiment on WSBE-TV Rhode Island PBS before departing the state.
Mark Curtis Salary
Curtis earns an annual salary ranging between $40,000 – $ 110,500.
Mark Curtis Net Worth
Curtis has an estimated net worth ranging between $1 Million – $5 Million which he has earned through being an author, and political analyst.