Michael Howard King (born December 18, 1962)[1][2] is an American commentator, columnist and Murrow Award-winning & Emmy Award-winning television producer.
Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, King graduated from Roosevelt High School in Gary in 1980.[2] King attended Howard University and Purdue University and was a student journalist for the Purdue Exponent.[2] His uncle Emery King was a reporter for NBC News.[1]
While still a high school student, King began his first media job in August 1979 as a weekend DJ for Gary radio station WLTH.[3][4][5] King worked at various other radio stations in Northern Indiana and the Washington metropolitan area in the 1980s.[5]
King moved to the Atlanta metropolitan area in 1994, becoming station manager for WIGO (later WALR), a talk radio station targeting black Atlanta listeners.[6][7][8] At WIGO, King launched new programming in January 1995 such as Georgia Live, a daily interview show distributed to seven other stations in Georgia and South Carolina.[9] Beginning with the 1995 All-Star Game, WIGO began carrying NBA Radio Network game broadcasts in February 1995.[10]
Joining black conservative organization Project 21 in 1996, King wrote commentaries for Project 21 from 1998 to 2005.[11][5][12] In one 1999 commentary for Project 21, King opposed lowering academic standards for NCAA student-athletes on the grounds that "the primary purpose for college was to get an education, not to act as a farm system for the NBA."[11][13]
Joining CNN Interactive in 1997, King was part of the web development team that launched CNNSI.com, the website for CNN Sports Illustrated, later that year.[5]
At the end of the 1990s, King was a weekend morning news anchor for WGST.[14]
In September 2005, King became a producer and reporter with WXIA-TV Atlanta.[5]
In 2021, King moved from WXIA to Atlanta television station WUPA as a digital media strategist.[15]
At WXIA, King was part of WXIA's news production team that won the 2011 Southeast Emmy Award for News Programming Excellence (Category 1A) and the 11Alive.com website team that won a 2015 regional RTDNA Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Website.[16][17]
In 2016, King won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Investigative Reporting among large market TV stations. This award was for an in-depth report on WXIA about the American Legislative Exchange Council, "Smart ALEC: The Backroom Where Laws Are Born".[1][18][19]
King lives in Mableton, Georgia.[20][21]
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