The Washington Scouse: Become a Citizen Journalist

Monday, October 20, 2008

Become a Citizen Journalist

Here are two easy ways to become a Citizen Journalist. Go to AskYourLawmaker.org (below) and pose a question. Or visit Meymo Lyons' section of the My Conversation interactive site at WAMU, Washington's Public Radio news station, and suggest a topic or story, and provide information and contacts if you have them.

More about Mark

Mark began his career in Liverpool, England as a reporter and anchor at Radio City. He moved to BBC Radio in London, and became the Senior Producer of the BBC’s live weekly flagship TV program, Question Time. In the following years he worked both in the UK and traveled the world working with some of the BBC’s finest correspondents. He produced from New York, Washington and Los Angeles, throughout Western Europe, Russia, Poland, Canada, Haiti, Belize, and Columbia.

In 1999 Mark became Managing Editor for News at WNYC Radio in New York, where his team won an Edward R. Murrow Award, and a DuPont Columbia Award, both for Investigative Reporting projects. He then moved to Washington DC to become Program Director at WAMU 88.5. He is also the Broadcast Journalist in Residence at American University.

Mark lives in North West DC with his wife, Melinda, their two children and their golden retriever, Josie.