Marcus Mabry, MA
MS Now's Senior Vice President for Content Strategy
CHIBE External Advisory Board Member
Biography
Marcus Mabry is MS Now’s Senior Vice President for Content Strategy, overseeing the execution, look and feel of MS Now’s current and future digital products and the network’s direct-to-consumer, subscription, and premium businesses across digital, audio, video and long-form content. He also leads MS Now Live, the network’s live events business.
Before coming to MS Now, Marcus was CNN’s SVP of Digital Editorial and Programming. He is a former Editor at Large and International Business Editor of The New York Times and former Paris Correspondent, Africa Bureau Chief, State Department Correspondent and Chief of Correspondents at Newsweek.
Mabry was also the first North American editor of Twitter Moments, the social platform’s news product.
In addition, he has also worked at The Boston Globe and his hometown newspaper, The Trentonian. He was the 1999-2000 CFR Murrow Press Fellow, former President of the Overseas Press Club of America and author of two books, one on Condoleezza Rice and one on growing up Black in White America.
He is a trustee of The Lawrenceville School, The Quad Preparatory School, International Schools Services and The Oliver Scholars Program.
He’s a former national secretary of the NLGJA, a Lifetime Member of NABJ and the co-founder of NABJ’s LGBTQ+ Task Force.
Mabry has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Stanford and is a graduate of the NAMIC Executive Leadership Program at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. He also studied at The Sorbonne and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and speaks fluent French. He lives in New York City, with his partner and two children.