journalism
MARK GUARINO is an award-wining journalist who writes about culture, national news, and all points between.
He is a producer with ABC News where he writes for the website, and researches stories and books segments for Good Morning America and other programs.
The University of Chicago Press published his book COUNTRY AND MIDWESTERN: CHICAGO IN THE HISTORY OF COUNTRY MUSIC AND THE FOLK REVIVAL, which received unanimously positive reviews. Country and Midwestern received the 2024 Best Country Music Book Award from the International Country Music Conference in Nashville and the 2024 Book of the Year Award from the State of Illinois Historical Society. The book was also honored through special events held at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, the Chicago Humanities Festival, the Cindy Pritzker Pavilion at the Chicago Public Library, Printers Row Lit Fest, and many other venues throughout Chicago and elsewhere.
Mark has just finished his second book for The University of Wisconsin Press. A third book is underway.
His byline has also appeared in THE WASHINGTON POST, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE GUARDIAN, BBC, CRAIN’S, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, REUTERS, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, AGENCE-FRANCE PRESSE, MOJO, AL JAZEERA AMERICA, among many other outlets. He was the Midwest Bureau Chief for THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR for six years where he covered the BP oil spill, labor, the environment, Hurricane Katrina recovery, hate crimes, federal trials, among many other topics. He was also the pop music critic for THE CHICAGO DAILY HERALD for 11 years.
He is a frequent media guest to talk about his work, having appeared on the BBC, NPR, CBC, Sirius/XM POTUS Channel 124, Al Jazeera television, “Chicago Tonight” (WTTW Chicago), WGN television and radio, WLS-AM, WVON-AM, Russia Today (RT), Geraldo Rivera (FOX), and other outlets.
Mark taught journalism at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He received his MFA from Bennington College in Vermont.
To read the full archive of Mark’s work, please click on any of the outlets below. Download his CV here.
