Newhouse School of Communications

Mark Obbie
Associate Professor, MAG
Communications
Magazine_Journalism

Office: Newhouse 3 Rm. 447
Telephone: (315) 443-2848
Email: mjobbie@syr.edu

Mark Obbie has been a reporter and editor for more than 25 years, focusing on lawyers, courts, crime, and business news. He teaches magazine editing, news reporting and writing, and media law. He also directs the Carnegie Legal Reporting Program at Newhouse.

Obbie is the former executive editor of The American Lawyer magazine in New York City. He also has managed the Internet operations for a network of legal magazines and newspapers, was editor and publisher of the Dallas-based weekly newspaper Texas Lawyer, and covered courts, cops, and city government for The Houston Post and the Warren, Ohio, Tribune-Chronicle.

His freelance work has appeared in Inc., The American Lawyer, FPO Magazine, and Slate.com, and on his blog about legal journalism called LawBeat. He has a master's degree from the University of Missouri School of Journalism and a bachelor's degree from St. John Fisher College. His personal Web site includes his CV and work samples.

Expertise:

• Investigative Reporting
• Legal Affairs Reporting
• Magazine Journalism