MARCUS WILFORD

ABC News Vice President for International Digital

Marcus Wilford was named to the newly created position ABC News Vice President for International Digital in December 2007. In this role he is responsible for ABC News’ international expansion on all platforms, seeking to grow international partnerships and audiences for ABC News around the globe.

Prior to this, Mr. Wilford was director of news coverage for Europe, Middle East and Africa based in ABC News’ London bureau. He was responsible for ABC News bureaus, staff and stringers in the region and was the liaison with ABC News’ international partners, including BBC News. During his tenure, ABC News’ major overseas challenges included the injuries in Iraq to ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman, Doug Vogt; assessing how to improve safety for journalists working in Iraq; lobbying Kremlin officials to agree to reinstate ABC News’ accreditation in Russia; and determining how to best accommodate increased content demands from ABC News’ digital platforms, including ABCNEWS.com and ABC News NOW, the network’s 24-hour news and lifestyle digital network.

Prior to a four-year stint as ABC News London bureau chief, Mr. Wilford worked as a senior producer for “World News Tonight with Peter Jennings,” with responsibility for foreign news, working both in New York and London. As a field producer for ABC News based in London for eight years, he covered the Bosnian civil war as a producer with Jim Wooten, the civil war and refugee crisis in Rwanda, and the civil war in Somalia with Ron Allen. He also covered the Hong Kong handover with Aaron Brown and the Pope’s visit to Cuba with Peter Jennings in 1998. Other assignments include field reports from Sudan, Algeria, Chechnya, Ukraine, Iraq, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Northern Ireland, and much of the Middle East. Mr. Wilford joined ABC News in 1986 as an assignment editor after working in New York for the McNeil Lehrer NewsHour.

Mr. Wilford was a 2007 Sulzberger Fellow at the Columbia Journalism School, working on a project to develop a new kind of international bureau for ABC News. In October 2007 ABC News opened seven new international digital bureaus as a result of this project.

He has an MA in Modern History from Cambridge University, and lives in London with his wife and two daughters.