Saturday, October 31, 2026

Mark Allan Williams

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Mark Allan Williams was a senior editor at Bloomberg Industry and at BNA in the decades before it was acquired by Bloomberg. Prior to that, Mark was a staff writer at the St. Petersburg Times, in the years before it became the Tampa Bay Times. Mark began his career as a staff writer at the Associated Press. Mark's M.A. is in journalism and public affairs from American University and his B.A. is in sociology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County.

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