Marcus K. Dowling

Marcus K. Dowling is an iconoclastic polymath.

Marcus K. Dowling is The Tennessean's Nashville Country Music Reporter (part of the USA Today Network). He is also a member of the 2025 class of Leadership Music and an Academy of Country Music-honored 2023 Country Music Association Media Achievement Award winner, the 2021 recipient of the Rolling Stone Chet Flippo Award for Excellence in Country Music Journalism, plus the recipient of the 2022 Best of Gannett and National Headliner Awards.

Over the past two decades, he has also won global honors as a dance music, food, hip-hop journalist, and more, with his work being lauded by The Bitter Southerner, Natinal Association of Black Journalists and Southern Foodways Alliance, plus appearing in Billboard, Rolling Stone, NPR, Vice, The FADER, VIBE, Complex, Mixmag, Bandcamp, CMT, No Depression, and more.

Moreover, he's been quoted by or made appearances for the A&E Networks, Associated Press, CBS, ESPN, Hulu, NBC, New York Times, NPR, PBS, Tribeca Film Festival, the Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.

His credits include work with Viacom, A&E Networks, and Washington, DC's Government as a screenwriter.

In the past decade, his conceptual curation, marketing, promotional, interviewing, and hosting expertise have allowed creative entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry to gross $25 million in revenue.