Marcia Biggs

About Marcia Biggs

Peabody and George Polk Award winning storyteller, focusing on conflict and humanitarian…

Experience

1. Special Correspondent

   Pbs News

   Dec 2014 — Present

   Reported, produced, and wrote segments on the targeting of doctors in the Syrian civil war, the use of children in armed conflict, the looting of Syrian antiquities, as well as the plight of Syrian refugees in both the United States and the Arab World. For PBS in Iraq, she covered various stages of the battle for Mosul, documented the plight of Yazidi girls who have escaped ISIS captivity, and told the moving story of American military veterans volunteering on the front lines against ISIS. In 2018, she became one of the few television journalists to cover the crisis in Yemen, which she did in a four part series for PBS,\"Inside Yemen.\" A pivot to Latin America took her to Honduras, ground zero of the Central American migration crisis, and then to Venezuela, where she went undercover to report on the country’s healthcare disaster. Most recently, she reported on the crisis in Haiti.

Education

• American University of Beirut

  Masters of Arts, Middle Eastern Studies

  2005 — 2009

• Vanderbilt University

  Bachelors of Art, History

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Final Cut Pro
• Broadcast Journalism
• Field Producing
• Television
• Microsoft Office Suite, Nms, Inews, Octopus, Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Quicklink
• Producing
• Editing
• Media Production
• Enps
• Storytelling
• On-Camera Reporting
• Broadcasting
• On-Camera Interviews
• Documentaries
• Breaking News
• Broadcast Television
• Camera
• Field Production
• Video Production
• Broadcast
• Avid
• Avid Newscutter