Meet Mike

"Mike launched MVM Consulting so that he could focus on the needs of public media newsrooms during this time of dramatic change."

Michael V. Marcotte is a champion of powerful public media. His journalism career spans more than 30 years and includes work in newspaper, radio, television and online. He has managed top rated NPR news departments in San Diego and Seattle, worked for NPR and taught journalism at four universities.

Mike was elected president of PRNDI, the national association for public radio news directors, and has volunteered on boards, panels and projects to help serve the industry and audience of public service broadcasting.

"I think one would be hard pressed to find a more immediate and long-lasting way to improve their news operation than working with Mike Marcotte."-- Jonathan Ahl, Iowa Public Radio Network

Mike was selected for the class of 2011 by the premiere U.S. journalism fellowship -- the Knight Journalism Fellowship at Stanford University -- where he focused on changes in public media, leadership and innovation in newsrooms, the science of data visualization and social networks, and so much more.

Mike earned a bachelors and masters degree in journalism from the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia.

He is an alumni of LEAD San Diego (a selective leadership program) and has grown his craft and career through many educational opportunities including those offered by

• National Public Radio,
• Poynter Institute for Media Studies,
• Associated Press,
• Integrated Media Association,
• Public Radio News Directors Inc,
• Georgia Press Association,
• The Society of Professional Journalists,
• Investigative Reporters and Editors,
• Public Radio Program Directors Association,
• Association of Independents in Radio,
• Radio-Television News Directors Association,
• Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication.

After 20 years of news management, Mike launched MVM Consulting so that he could focus on the needs of public media newsrooms during this time of dramatic change. Mike believes that urgency is needed now to elevate the role of journalism at public broadcast stations. In many cases this requires station reorganization to support the news mission on multiple platforms.

"Mike believes that urgency is needed now to elevate the role of journalism at public broadcast stations."

Mike also advocates for better relations with NPR News in Washington -- as a means to a more integrated system of powerful public service journalism in America.