Mark Mullen

Education

Mullen attended Loyola University in New Orleans from 1981 to 1987, where he majored in journalism and Spanish.

Career

He joined the station in June, 2010 from American Broadcasting Company News, where he served as a Los Angeles-based correspondent. Prior to American Broadcasting Company, he was Chief Asia Correspondent for National Broadcasting Company News, regularly reporting news on notable Chinese and East Asian current events and contributing in-depth stories about China"s changing culture, economy and political system. Mullen also has visited war zones to deliver stories from Iraq.

He"s covered stories from Europe and from across the United States., including the aftermath of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina.

He"s also drawn on his experience as a pilot to report on major plane crashes. His first job was as an anchor and reporter for WLOX-television in Mississippi. the regional American Broadcasting Company affiliate covering the Gulf Coast.

Mullen moved to KDFW in Dallas in 1989, and KRON in San Francisco in 1991. In 1997, he was made anchor of the national American Broadcasting Company overnight newscast World News Now.

He then returned to local news, with stints in Seattle and a return to KRON before joining National Broadcasting Company News as a national correspondent in 2003.

In late 2006 Mullen assumed a post in Beijing as National Broadcasting Company"s first full-time correspondent in China since Ned Colt left in 2004. The new role was part of National Broadcasting Company"s expansion of its bureau there, which was tied to the network"s effort to increase visibility of China in anticipation of irs broadcast of the 2008 Olympic Games. In Beijing, Mullen produced a number of notable stories, including a weeklong series on the "National Broadcasting Company Nightly News" called "China Rising" which examined a multi-faceted, changing China in the context of the October 2007 Communist Party Congress.

Mullen also contributed to the year-long series of Olympic countdown broadcasts for National Broadcasting Company"s "Today" and "Nightly News." His August 8 live stand-up from Tiananmen Square was the first live broadcast from the square since the Chinese government crackdown on student demonstrators in 1989.

On an airing of the 11 o"clock news on May 24, 2011 he was quoted as saying that some of the information on this page was "nothing bad, but incorrect.".

Achievements

• Mullen has won numerous national and regional awards for his work.