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Digital Journalist
Mark Liu is a webcaster and assignment editor for KCBS/KCAL. He joined the news team in April of 2003.
Mark is a Southern California native who was born and raised in Glendale, CA. He attended UCLA and graduated with a political science degree.
He started his news career in 1998 at KTNV, the ABC affiliate in Las Vegas, NV. He worked as an assignment editor there for four years, eventually becoming the dayside assignment manager. While there, he helped coordinate newsroom operations for ABC's award winning Y2K coverage.
Since returning to his home state of California, Mark has worked on KCBS/KCAL's nightside assignment desk where he and his fellow assignment editors find breaking news stories for the 8, 9, 10 and 11pm news.
Mark has won three local emmy awards for his work on the assignment desk, including one for "Best Breaking News Coverage" of the Jet Blue Emergency Landing Incident from September of 2005.
He is also pioneering the first local webcast on the stations' two websites. Mark brings webviewers an exclusive take on the latest webnews twice a day.
You can also read about Mark's adventures on the assignment desk on his blog entitled http://www.cbs2.com/newsdesk.
In his spare time, Mark enjoys A) losing at online video games against his friends and B) crashing Windows while trying to edit the registry.
