Mark Preston Biography
Mark Preston is a CNN Senior Political Analyst and Vice President of Political & Special Events Programming. His responsibilities include overseeing CNN’s election night coverage on broadcast and online platforms, organizing CNN’s presidential debates and forums, serving as CNN’s primary liaison with state and national political campaigns, and leading the idea and execution of CNN’s political events.
Mark Preston Age
Preston is 50 years old as of 2021. He was born on July 21, 1971, in the United States of America.
Mark Preston Height
Preston stands at a height of 6 feet 0 inches (1.7 m).
Mark Preston Family
Preston is the son of Eugene Preston and Mary Preston.
Mark Preston Wife
Preston married Meredith Ray Bonner in the Holy Spirit Catholic Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on July 8, 2000, while working as a reporter for the Capitol Hill daily Roll Call. They met as reporters at the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta. Their honeymoon was spent in North Carolina.
Mark Preston Education
Preston attended Arlington High School in Arlington, Massachusetts, where he graduated in 1990, and then went on to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, also known as UMass Amherst, where he studied journalism and history. Preston earned two B. A. degrees in journalism and history from UMass Amherst in 1994.
Mark Preston SiriusXM Satellite Radio
Preston co-hosted Politics Inside Out, a weekly satellite radio program on Sirius XM Satellite Radio’s Channel 124, known as P.O.T.U.S., with Chris Frates. In July 2017, he departed the show, which was renamed Politics Inside Out with Chris Frates, and Preston started a new political show, Full Stop with Mark Preston, as a solo host.
Mark Preston CNN Career
Preston began his career as a newspaper reporter. He worked as a correspondent for States News Services, a wire service in Washington, D.C., and the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Georgia, where he earned multiple reporting prizes from the Georgia Press Association and the Georgia Associated Press.
Preston worked as a congressional correspondent for the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call, where he exposed major policy and political decisions made behind closed doors. As a guest analyst, he appeared on CNN, C-SPAN, Fox News, ABC Radio, National Public Radio, and Radio America, as well as local news organizations.
Preston joined CNN in 2005 as a political editor and has won numerous awards, including two Emmys for the network’s award-winning election night coverage in 2006 and 2012. He was part of the Parkland Town Hall crew that was nominated for an Emmy in 2019. Preston was an integral part of the Peabody Award-winning coverage of the presidential primary debates and campaigns in 2008.
Several award nominations have also been given to his work, including two Emmy nods for CNN’s 2008 political programming. Preston’s efforts also helped CNN win the i-3 Mirror Award from Syracuse University for the YouTube presidential debates in 2008, as well as a National Headliner Award, an EPPY Award, various Webby Award distinctions, and a Shorty Award in 2013.
Preston was CNN’s political director until being elected executive editor in 2014. Preston spent six years as a senior staff writer for the Capitol Hill daily Roll Call before joining CNN. He’s previously worked as a correspondent for States News Agency, a Washington-based wire service, and the Marietta Daily Journal in Marietta, Georgia, where he received multiple Georgia Press Association and Georgia Associated Press reporting awards.
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