Marty is the director of community engagement at Detroit PBS, part of the station’s award-winning journalism team. After 30-plus years as a working journalist, he took a slight detour in his career to serve as managing director of the University of Michigan’s Taubman Medical Research Institute. Before that, he was an assistant managing editor of The Detroit News, where he worked for 20 years, and executive editor of Detroit Monthly magazine.
He is the recipient of many honors including the William White Award for editing the nation’s best city magazine, Detroit Monthly, and the University of Missouri Lifestyle Award for best features section. A graduate of Wayne State University, Marty began his journalism career by writing the “Detroit Guide,” a 500-page book about his hometown.
He has served on the board or committees of many community and cultural organizations, including D-PAN (Deaf Professional Arts Network), International Institute of Metropolitan Detroit, the Neutral Zone in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw Literacy. He also served in leadership positions in various national and local professional journalism organizations. Currently, he is the president of the Detroit Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and the board chair of the Ann Arbor Film Festival.
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