Marcus Wilson
Bristow, Virginia
Marcus Wilson is a Communications Consultant with over 20 years of experience in broadcast journalism, media relations, and academia. His work spans both the public and private sector, advising organizations on their strategic planning, communications, and outreach strategies. Expertise includes storytelling, media outreach, strategic planning, and crisis communications. He has trained and consulted corporate executives and spokespersons in various fields including non-profit, federal government, and education.
Consulting projects include handling media outreach for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, including Brady's "Finish the Job" campaign, and the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Brady Bill into law. While at Brady his earned media placements included ABC News, NBC News, CBS News, CBS Radio News, Hearst Newspapers, and Associated Press, and more...
Marcus also handled media outreach efforts for the American Academy of Physician Assistants "America Needs PAs" campaign, earning media mentions on ABC News Radio Network, NBC's Today Show, and WTOP All News Radio.
His list of consulting projects includes a case involving litigants against the YMCA’s national headquarters, and other labor issues.
Marcus spent more than decade at ABC News in New York city and Washington, D.C. where he was involved in writing, editing, reporting, and producing news for the award winning radio-television news network.
Marcus got his start in broadcast journalism in his hometown of Dallas-Fort Worth. He spent 3 years at KRLD News Radio where he served as a editor, reporter, producer, and assignment manager. During that time, he help produce news coverage for several major stories including the deadly gunman attack at a Luby’s cafeteria in Killeen, Texas.
Before KRLD, Marcus worked at KXAS-TV as a sports assistant for the station’s award-winning sports department, where he covered high school, college, and professional sports teams, including the Dallas Cowboys, Dallas Maverick’s and the Texas Rangers.
In his career, Marcus has won journalism’s most prestigious awards including the Edward R. Murrow award, the George Foster Peabody award, and Columbia University’s Alfred i. duPont award for excellence in news coverage.
He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington with a bachelor’s degree in radio/tv/film mass communications with a minor in business administration.