Mark Niu is an award-winning journalist, playwright and screenwriter.

Mark served as host and correspondent for Fox’s international sister network, Star TV, where he traveled throughout the Asia region. He covered stories for Star TV’s newsmagazine program, Focus Asia, which was broadcast on PBS and the National Geographic Channel. In 2005, he was awarded a Foreign Correspondents Human Rights Press Award from Amnesty International for his investigative report on corporal punishment in Indian schools. As a freelance journalist in Asia, Mark helped produce programs for CBS 60 Minutes, The NBC Nightly News, BBC and the Nightly Business Report on PBS. He was a familiar face in Hong Kong where he anchored and reported the English news for the territory’s two largest broadcasters, TVB and Asia Television. Prior to that, Mark served as reporter and anchor at local NBC and ABC affiliates in Wisconsin.

 

 

Mark is also a playwright. His play, Juche Rules, won the 2008 USC MPW One-Act Play Festival and was staged at East West Players Theater in Los Angeles. His work was inspired by his own bizarre trip to North Korea and was featured in the April 2008 issue of Variety Magazine. The play was recently published in the Southern California Review.

 

Mark is also a screenwriter who is currently working on the short film version of his play, Juche Rules. Several of Mark’s full-length screenplays have also placed in national competitions.

 

Mark currently resides in Los Angeles where he writes freelance for local news publications. He earned his BA in journalism from the University of Wisconsin and has a Master’s degree in Professional writing from the University of Southern California.