Mark Potter

NBC News Correspondent

NBC News	Mark Potter

A big week for tapes

World AIDS Day: Remembering Bush's legacy

First day back

Mourning Tanta

A long weekend comes to an end

updated 5:44 p.m. ET March 8, 2007

Mark Potter is an NBC News correspondent based in Miami where he reports for "NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams," "Today," MSNBC and MSNBC.com. He joined NBC as a correspondent in 2004.

During his more than 30-year journalism career, Potter has reported from all over the United States, as well as South America, Central America and the Caribbean, including Haiti and Cuba. He has also worked in NBC's London and Hong Kong Bureaus, and has reported from China, the South Pacific, the Philippines and Israel. Much of his career was spent with investigative units at both the national and regional levels, and he has reported on topics including politics, narcotics and immigrant smuggling, environmental issues, natural disasters, international conflicts and numerous high-profile court cases.

Story continues below ↓

advertisement | your ad here

Among the stories he has covered are the Cuban Mariel boatlift, the Grenada invasion, the arrest and trial of Panama's General Manuel Noriega, the Colombian and Mexican drug wars, the 1980's Miami riots, the Theodore Bundy murder trial, the regime of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, scores of hurricanes, the Elian Gonzalez legal battle, several Papal trips, and the right-to-die case of Terri Schiavo.

For fifteen years, Potter was a correspondent for ABC News, reporting for "World News Tonight with Peter Jennings," "Nightline" and "Good Morning America." He also worked for CNN, where among other duties he served as contributing correspondent for the Emmy-Award winning magazine show, "CNN and Time."

Potter is the recipient of an Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Award, a Robert F. Kennedy Award, an Investigative Reporters and Editors Award, a national Emmy Award nomination, and six regional Emmy Awards. He has often appeared as a guest lecturer in journalism classes at the University of Miami, the University of Missouri and the University of Kansas.

Potter graduated from the University of Missouri School of Journalism. Following graduation, Potter worked for three local television stations in Evansville, Ind., and Miami.