Mara Schiavocampo ( ), also Mara S. Campo, (born September 28, 1979) is a four-time Emmy Award-winning

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, podcast host, and Executive Producer. Mara is the host of TV One's investigative show "Fatal Attraction: Last Words". She is also the anchor of Revolt TV's special reports and investigations. Mara frequently appears on cable news as a commentator and analyst, focusing mainly on issues of race and culture. Mara is one of the highest charting Black podcasters in the country. She was the Executive Producer and Host of the wellness and beauty podcast "The Trend Reporter" (iHeart Media), which twice reached #1 on the iTunes Fashion and Beauty charts. The podcast ran for two seasons. Mara is also the creator, Executive producer, and co-host of the podcast "Run Tell This", which features prominent Black journalists discussing news and current events. Mara spent 11 years in network television as a Correspondent and Anchor. Mara worked as a Correspondent for "Good Morning America" and ABC News from 2014 to 2018. Before that, she was a Correspondent and Anchor for NBC News. She was an anchor for ''

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'' on NBC and for '' First Look'' on

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and was an

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correspondent. Mara was a pioneer of digital journalism and the first digital correspondent in network news.

Biography

Schiavocampo received her undergraduate degree from

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and her master's degree from

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. Schiavocampo has worked for

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, CBS News,

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, ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Dr. Oz Show'', and '' Uptown''. Schiavocampo was with

from 2007 to 2013, where she was a digital correspondent and anchor of ''

'' and anchor of

's ''First Look'' for her last three years with NBC. Schiavocampo is married to Tommie Porter; the couple has two children. The family lives in

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. Schiavocampo is biracial, born of a Sicilian Italian father and an

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mother.

References

1979 births Living people American television journalists American women television journalists African-American women journalists African-American journalists American writers of Italian descent African-American television personalities University of California, Los Angeles alumni University of Maryland, College Park alumni 21st-century American journalists People from Silver Spring, Maryland Journalists from Maryland 21st-century American women 21st-century African-American women 21st-century African-American people 20th-century African-American people 20th-century African-American women {{US-journalist-1970s-stub