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Mark Walton

Associate Professor of Practice in Media Management

Email
waltonm@newschool.edu

Office Location
D - 79 Fifth Avenue

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Mark Walton

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Mark has devoted much of his professional career to helping independent content creators plus an array of media organizations develop sustainable business models.  He is a staunch advocate for multicultural media.  Currently, Mark is a member of a working group charged with advancing the film industry in Barbados and last year he was named an Ambassador for the Pavillon Afriques at the Cannes Film Festival. 

Professionally, Mark was most recently President of Sales & Marketing for One Caribbean Television, and prior to that, he was a member of the senior management team that launched The Africa Channel in the US and the UK. 

Mark has been a TV syndicator securing distribution and sponsorship for over fifty (50) shows, including New York Undercover and the Hispanic Heritage Awards.  He was also a founding partner at the indie film distribution company KJM3 that successfully marketed Julie Dash’s Daughters of the Dust and Raoul Peck’s The Man By The Shore.  Mark began his career at the CBS Television Network in marketing. 

Over the years, he fulfilled his passion for teaching by being a part-time professor of Media Management at both Fordham University’s Graduate School of Business and then at The New School.   


Degrees Held

BS | Journalism | Boston University | College of Communicaton

MPPM | Master's in Public and Private Management | Yale School of Management


Current Courses


Future Courses

  • Media Economics
    NMDM 5301 - Spring 2027
  • Multicultural Media Business
    NMDM 5331 - Spring 2027
  • Management Capstone
    NMDM 5940 - Spring 2027

Past Courses

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