Mara Schiavocampo

Award-winning journalist Mara Schiavocampo is the Digital Correspondent for "NBC Nightly News With Brian Williams," the first reporter of her kind in network television. A pioneer of new media journalism, Schiavocampo travels the world producing, shooting, reporting and editing video pieces, blogging and shooting still photos. She files reports for all NBC News platforms, including "NBC Nightly News," "Nightly News" online (www.nightly.msnbc.com), "Today" and MSNBC.

Schiavocampo has been featured as a Special Correspondent for "The Oprah Winfrey Show," filing international reports and appearing as an on-set guest. She is also a recurring guest commentator on NPR.

Before joining NBC News, Schiavocampo worked as an international contributor and commentator for numerous news outlets and websites, including ABC News, Current TV, Yahoo!, NPR, "Ebony" Magazine, "UPTOWN" Magazine and more. She has covered the plight of Iraqi refugees, post-war events in Beirut and the epidemic of racist attacks in Russia, among other stories.

Schiavocampo was recently named to “Television Week's” list of the "next generation of television news stars" and is the National Association of Black Journalists’ 2007 Emerging Journalist of the Year, the first broadcast journalist ever to win this prestigious award. In 2008, Schiavocampo received an astounding seven Telly Awards, including a Silver Telly (highest honor) for an investigative report on New York's black market for cigarettes. In 2007, she received an honorable mention from the Society of Environmental Journalists for her reporting on the Lebanon oil spill. Schiavocampo's investigative report on Army recruiting fraud won the New York State Broadcasters Association Award for Outstanding Hard News in 2006.

Schiavocampo has an extensive multi-cultural background. She holds dual Italian American citizenship and has traveled extensively in the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Africa, and resided for a time in Somalia, Italy and the Philippines. She speaks fluent Italian, functional Spanish and French, and some Arabic.

Before becoming an independent video journalist, Schiavocampo worked as a producer at ABC News headquarters in New York. She was part of the team behind ABC's newest endeavor, ABC News Now, a 24-hour digital cable and Internet news channel. Prior to ABC News, she worked as an anchor and reporter for CBS News on mtvU (University), also filing reports for CBS Newspath and "BET Nightly News."

Schiavocampo received her bachelor's degree with honors from the University of California at Los Angeles, and went on to earn a master's degree in broadcast journalism from the University of Maryland. She attended the school on a full graduate fellowship and completed her studies with a perfect grade point average.

Schiavocampo is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and serves as the Deputy Director for the Northeast Region.
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She lives in Harlem with her husband. They have a cat and a dog, both rescue animals.

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