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About Mark Scarp
MARK J. SCARP has been a journalist for nearly 25 years, writing and editing for several newspapers in the Phoenix area before starting work at what became the East Valley Tribune, based in Mesa, a city of 450,000 just southeast of Phoenix. For 9 ½ years he was a member of the newspaper’s editorial board, writing many of the newspaper’s editorials as well as his own column on local issues.
Mark is active in the Society of Professional Journalists, known as SPJ, having spent six years on its national board of directors. Also active in SPJ’s Phoenix chapter, in August 2009 he will be co-directing the fifth annual Valley Publicity Summit, where journalists and public relations professionals meet to foster better relationships and to teach PR people the best ways to pitch story ideas.
In April 2009 he chaired SPJ’s spring regional conference that brought together 125 journalists from Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at his alma mater, Arizona State University. In March and October 2010 he was part of a four-person staff team that administered spring and fall conferences for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, where today he is employed as membership coordinator. The spring conference in Phoenix attracted more than 300 participants, the fall conference in New York City more than 230. He and fellow SABEW staff members are planning a spring 2011 conference at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
