Mark Dewey

Lecturer

Contact Information:
CMB B1.104
512-471-6413
markdewey@mac.com

Specializing in New Media, Mark Dewey has worked with both the old and the new. As a writer at CNN, he scripted stories for leading anchors like Bernard Shaw and David French. In local markets, Dewey anchored, produced, photographed, wrote, and edited ratings-leading news programs.

In Time Warner Cable’s programming group, he proposed a more effective way of building local cable news operations that helped spark a nationwide rollout.

A Batten Media Fellowship and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business led him into the world of New Media.

At America Online, Dewey co-founded and served as General Manager of Digital City Washington (now AOL City Guide), AOL’s first non-newspaper local content site. There he created and ran both the editorial operation and the advertising sales force. Dewey pioneered new media coverage by bringing a reporting team and digital cameras to the 1995 Million Man March on Washington. This on-the-ground coverage, available only to AOL members, blasted mass media stereotypes and revealed the true nature of the event. He went on to manage much of AOL’s online programming, including big consumer areas like autos, food, home & garden, family, lifestyles, and health.

Since leaving AOL, Dewey has worked on a number of media projects, including digital photography, a music documentary, a search engine, a wine club, and a children’s newspaper.

Dewey has volunteered as a preschool phonics teacher and has served on the board of HIPPY (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool Youngsters), a community-based organization that delivers home-based preschool to at-risk children.

He is an active family blogger and has been published in the RTNDA “Future of News” collection.

Recent Courses: J349T, Covering Technology and Innovation.