Mark Albert is the founder and CEO of Media Advisory Experts, a Washington, DC-based consulting firm providing media training, crisis communications, earned media, storytelling and video production services to clients in the U.S. and around the globe.
Mark is a Peabody and EMMY awardwinning master storyteller with a 25-year journalism career distinguished by investigative and political reporting, innovative storytelling techniques, and creative communications. He’s traveled the world for CBS News and reported from the White House, Capitol Hill and the US Supreme Court; created and led a national investigative unit for Hearst Communications; taught journalists in newsrooms in the US, Vietnam, and Pakistan; and created a media database to drive countless earned media appearances. He is also the host of ‘Media Mastery Experts LIVE!’ – an in-person media training, public speaking and leadership communications bootcamp, as well as an online course.
Mark has won some of the biggest honors in journalism while landing high-profile, national interviews, including with philanthropist and tech pioneer Bill Gates, government and political leaders at history-making moments, and visionary creators.
Mark has been to 95 countries so far. His first exposure to study abroad began at age 11, when he was part of a delegation of 50 American students to go behind the Iron Curtain to what was then the Soviet Union, spending three weeks studying with 50 Soviet students near Leningrad, which is now St. Petersburg.