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Mark Kelley is a veteran of 25 years in the broadcast news business, working as a reporter, producer, and until 2000, main anchor for WNDU-TV in South Bend, IN. He is the author of three and a half novels: Berman's Lament, Second Edition (2024), Berman's Confession (due out in late 2024), Berman's Future (due out in 2025), and the tragic story of his mother's work with the Manhattan Project during WWII (Rain of Ruin, CreateSpace, 2011). The Jed Brman novels are part of a series, featuring intrepid newspaper reporter turned broadcast news reporter and anchor, Jed Berman. In Part One, Berman trades a successful position as an investigative print reporter for the larger audience and accompanying celebrity of a regional TV station. All goes well until a new generation of news directors shows up, focused on ratings, and not on telling viewers the truth about things that matter. In Part Two, Berman's Confession, the focus is on a conscience-stricken Berman, who turns to a pot-smoking retro-hippie named Doris for help in answering the burning question of his life. In Part Three, Berman's Future, an older Berman awakens from a 20-year coma to a world he hardly understands. In late 2023, Penn State Press published Kelley's biography of Lydia Hamilton Smith, the mixed-race partner of Civil War era Congressman Thaddeus Stevens. It's entitled: An Uncommon Woman: The Life of Lydia Hamilton Smith. Kelley is also the author of Engaging News Media: A Practical Guide for People of Faith (Cowley Publications, 2006), which seeks to help media consumers think more critically about the news media content they consume. Kelley holds an MS and a Ph.D. from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. He taught journalism at the University of Maine and served as Director of Journalism at the New England School of Communications in Bangor, ME. He continues teaching media and journalism-related classes in senior continuing education programs in the Lancaster, PA area. Mark Kelley is married to his high school sweetheart, and the couple have two adult children and six grandchildren. His extracurricular interests include volunteer groundskeeping at Shreiner Cemetery in Lancaster (where Thaddeus Stevens hoped to lie, for eternity, beside the love of his life, Lydia Hamilton Smith.) He is an avid reader of all things, including outdated brochures at the dentist's office. He enjoys writing, walking and playing baritone horn. (He and his wife still fantasize about Walking for Peace along U.S.1 from Fort Kent, ME (its northernmost point) to Key West, FL (its southernmost point). With every passing year, that goal becomes a bigger and bigger fantasy.
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