MIKE CURTIS
Producer, Researcher, Writer, Lessons For Life
Producer, NJN News
Producer, Special Projects

As NJN News’ award-winning producer, who has more than 16 years journalism experience as both a producer and reporter,. Curtis has been the producer of NJN News since 1993. The news program won the 1995-96 Mid-Atlantic Emmy award for the Outstanding Single News Broadcast, and focused on a visit to New Jersey by President Clinton. A year earlier, he produced an overseas special Holocaust Homage for the public affairs series On the Record. The special earned Curtis two Society of Professional Journalists awards from the New Jersey and Philadelphia Chapters—one for Best Television Feature, the other for Best Documentary Work.

Before joining NJN, Curtis was a producer for four years at WREG-TV, the CBS affiliate in Memphis, Tennessee. He also worked as a producer and reporter at WTVW, the ABC affiliate in Evansville, Indiana, where he received the 1987 Associated Press award for Best News Series in Indiana for his reporting on the state’s Amish. His reporting has taken him throughout the United States and England. He has also produced three documentaries, two of them overseas.

Curtis began his career in 1984 as a reporter and later Assistant News Director in Greenville, Mississippi. As a reporter there he broke a story on a voting scandal that eventually led to federal government intervention to correct voting violations on a county level. In addition, Curtis has worked as an assignment editor and radio reporter.

Curtis holds a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cornell University.