Christian Martin
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Christian Martin, a VP and Executive Producer for NBC Universal - iVillage, is married to Elizabeth Catherine Cole, Executive Editor of Dateline NBC. They have two children, Charlie and Emilia, and live in Brooklyn.
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[edit] Childhood
Christian was born in New York City in 1967. His mother, Nancy Fales Garrett is a playwright, schoolteacher and dairy farmer. His father, Jared Martin, is an actor and the creative director of the Big Picture Alliance.
[edit] Schooling
He attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn, New York. He went to college at the University of Michigan where he received a BA in 1989 and then to New York University where he received an MA in 1993.
[edit] Career
He worked for NBC News, mostly for Dateline NBC, from 1993 till 2006. He has also covered the 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006 Olympics for NBC Sports. From 2003 to 2006 he was primarily Ann Curry's producer for NBC.
In August, 2006 he moved to iVillage.com where he is a Vice-President and the Executive Producer of Content, Programming and Integration. He still contributes to NBC News having produced an interview with Ann Curry and the First Lady, Laura Bush, for the Today Show on Malaria Day - April 2007, as well as the Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt Dateline hour on May 25th, 2007.
He was featured in "Covering Catastrophy: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11." Martin covering the event for NBC bought a camera from a tourist on the street and recorded the collapse of the south tower while standing near its base. He was thrown by the blast, briefly losing consciousness and then made it uptown to the Today Show studios where he appeared with Tom Brokaw, Matt Lauer and Katie Couric. The video tape he shot appeared frequently in the weeks and months after the collapse. Oliver Stone licensed a snippet of that footage for his 2006 movie, World Trade Center, starring Nick Cage. See the footage he shot here
"Covering Catastrophy: Broadcast Journalists Report September 11" Author(s): Gilbert, Allison; Hirschkorn, Phil; Murphy, Melinda; Walensky, Robyn; Stephens, Mitchell ISBN10: 156625180X ISBN13: 9781566251805 Format: Hardcover Pub. Date: 4/1/2002 Publisher(s): Natl Book Network.
He is a board member of the Dodge YMCA in Brooklyn.
One can read his blog at: christian martin's blog
[edit] Awards
2000 & 2002 & 2004 Sports Emmy, 2004 Genesis Award, 2001 Sigma Delta Chi Award, 2001 Edward R. Murrow Award, 1999 Clarion Award, 1998 CINE, 1997 First Place International Television – Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, 1996 – Gold Medal Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., 1993 Sid Gross Investigative Journalism Award (NYU), nine News Emmy nominations 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1994
