| Mark Little | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1968 (age 43–44)[1] |
| Education | Trinity College Dublin |
| Occupation | Journalist |
| Spouse(s) | Tara Peterman |
| Children | 3 |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Notable credit(s) | Prime Time |
Mark Little (born 1968) is an Irish journalist, television presenter, author and "social media visionary".[2] He presented Prime Time for RTÉ until December 2009.[3] He took a year of leave of absence from RTÉ to pursue a project centred around digital media and global journalism.[4] He launched the project in April 2010, called Storyful.[5]
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Little was born in Dublin in 1968.[6] He lived in Malahide, County Dublin, but later moved to Oughterard, County Galway.[7] He studied in economics and politics Trinity College, Dublin for 5 years and graduated in 1990 with a BA (Ord.) pass degree. During his time there he was president of the students’ union for a year and was a member of the Labour Party.[7] He joined the Dublin City University Graduate Journalism programme in 1990, but later dropped out.[8]
His first child, Sorcha, was born when Little was 21.[7] Her mother was Maxine Brady, the then president of the Union of Students in Ireland.[9] He is married to Tara Peterman, an American who worked with him on Prime Time, with two children, Daisy and Tommy, and lives in Dalkey, County Dublin.[7][10]
Little began is career in journalism working for The Sunday Business Post. He was then hired as a TV reporter for RTÉ News and Current Affairs in 1991,[11] after answering a newspaper advertisement.[9] He became RTÉ's first Washington Correspondent in 1995.[12] He remained there until 2001, before returning to Dublin to become Foreign Affairs Correspondent. His Washington post was filled by Carole Coleman.[13] In 2001 he won TV Journalist of the Year in the ESB National Media Awards.[14][15]
In his time with RTÉ, he has met such US politicians as Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.[16] He presented the documentary programme Who’s Afraid of Islam? in 2006. He has also reported from disaster and conflict areas such as, Iraq, Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.[14] In 2008, he presented American Dream: Dead or Alive on RTÉ One.[16]
Little often presented RTÉ News specials such as Government budgets and elections.[17][18]
In 2002, he joined RTÉ's flagship current affairs programme Prime Time, which he co-presented with Miriam O'Callaghan.[14] In November 2009, he announced his desire to take a leave of absence from RTÉ for the period of a year.[1] His reason was to pursue a project combining digital media and global journalism.[14] On 17 December 2009, he presented his final Prime Time.[4] This being a field he has experience in through his work on Twitter.[9] On 12 April 2010, his new project, storyful.com, was launched. He developed the website along with other web journalists.[5]
Little has written three books, two of which are on an American topic.[7] Turn Left at Greenland and Zulu Time were published in 2002 and 2004.[16] His third book The New America, was published in 2008.[10]
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