Marcus Mabry is MS NOW’s Senior Vice President of Content Strategy, overseeing MS NOW’s direct-to-consumer, subscription, and premium businesses across digital, audio, video and long-form content. He also leads MS NOW’s live events business.

Before coming to MS NOW, Mabry was CNN’s SVP of Digital Editorial and Programming, responsible for audience and distribution. 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 worked at The Boston Globe and his hometown newspaper, The Trentonian.

He is a former Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, former President of the Overseas Press Club of America and author of two books: Twice as Good: Condoleezza Rice and Her Path to Power and White Bucks and Black-eyed Peas: Coming of Age Black in White America.

He is a trustee of The Lawrenceville School and The Quad Preparatory School, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Center for Health Incentives and Behavioral Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Board of Visitors of the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University.

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.