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Mark Maxwell

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Political Editor @KSDKNews. Previously @WCIA3. Email: MMaxwell@KSDK.com Emmy winner. Murrow winner.

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Mark Maxwell’s Biography

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Mark is the Capitol Bureau Chief for WCIA, the CBS affiliate in Champaign, Illinois. Based out of Springfield, he also hosts Capitol Connection, a statewide political talkshow which airs on Sunday mornings on WCIA and is carried by affiliate stations in Rockford, Peoria-Bloomington, Moline-Davenport, Terre Haute, IN, and Evansville, IN. Mark previously anchored the nightly news for WHDT World News of West Palm Beach, Florida.

Mark Maxwell’s Journalist Portfolio

MARK MAXWELL ANCHOR REEL - 2018

MARK MAXWELL ANCHOR REEL - 2018

News Anchor Mark Maxwell

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News Anchor Reel

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Articles

Pritzker's new ad touts 12 credit upgrades. Bailey's campaign agrees they happened. The fight is over what they mean. Original

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By Mark Maxwell Verified
| KSDK-TV (St. Louis, MO) Verified
ILLINOIS, USA — Gov. JB Pritzker's re-election campaign began airing a statewide television ad Thursday crediting the Democrat with 12 credit rating upgrades, a claim his Republican challenger's campaign says is accurate but incomplete. The 30-second ad, which the campaign said is running in every Illinois media market, opens with newscast clips from the state's 2015-2017 budget impasse before a narrator says, "Then JB Pritzker got to work.
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Alderwoman recorded saying she'd put a bullet in colleague's head refuses to apologize, vows court fight if censured Original

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By Mark Maxwell Verified
| KSDK-TV (St. Louis, MO) Verified
ST. LOUIS — The seniors at the Homer G. Phillips apartments came to the meeting Monday afternoon to talk about the heat, which quits in winter, and the couches, which look like a cat got to them. Their alderwoman came to talk about Rasheen Aldridge. Sharon Tyus has represented the 12th Ward and its predecessors on and off since the 1990s. Aldridge, 32, has represented the 14th Ward for three years. He was not in the room. A resident with a phone was.
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St. Louis alderwoman caught on video threatening to 'put a bullet' in colleague's head at public meeting

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By Kelsi Anderson Verified, Mark Maxwell Verified, Jacob Kuerth Verified
| St. Louis Business Journal Verified
St. Louis police and the city's aldermanic president are looking into threats made by Alderwoman Sharon Tyus toward fellow Alderman Rasheen Aldridge that were recorded on video during a Monday afternoon meeting. A regular meeting was underway between public officials and residents of the Homer G. Phillips Senior Apartments when Tyus walked in and launched an angry tirade against Aldridge, who was present via video call. Missouri state Rep.
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Interview

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What was your first job as a journalist?

I delivered newspapers at age 8. You could say I've delivered news for two decades. But my first two 'jobs' were unpaid internships.

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Yes, my mom taught an advanced typing class in the 90s, and I would play with a typewriter they had in the class.

How is social media changing news?

It amplifies political biases, rewards instant reactions, hijacks producers lives, yet brings far more viewers to the conversation.