Nicki Mayo is the multimedia journalist behind Nicki Mayo News, LLC, an audio/video company specializing in video, podcast and social media campaign production for small businesses, civic groups and faith-based organizations.
The Baltimore native and Syracuse University alumna is the Editor-at-large for Black Women Unmuted. You may have also seen and heard Nicki’s multimedia work recently on TV One’s “News One Now,” “Fatal Attraction,” “Justice By Any Means” and “Thou Shalt Not.”
She recently served three years as the social media director for The Crisis Magazine, the official publication for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). She was also digital editor for The Philadelphia Tribune‘s PhillyTrib.com website and various social media accounts.
Nicki worked three years as a national correspondent covering breaking news for the Associated Press Radio Network and the AP’s Race and Ethnicity team. She also was a producer for TV One’s “News One Now,” a host for NPR station WAMU-FM 88.5 in Washington, D.C., Digital Producer/Editor for NPR’s WYPR 88.1 FM in Baltimore and anchor for 1430 WNAV Radio News in Annapolis. Nicki reported and produced videos for the American Heart & Stroke Association and taught journalism & speech at Cheverly STEM Education Center.
Nicki was on the flagship team for E.W. Scripps’ The List,” helping launch the national entertainment news program in 2012 as the Baltimore correspondent based at WMAR-TV ABC2.
Before this, Nicki covered & edited stories for Aol.com as the Local Editor for Crofton Patch covering Crofton and Gambrills, Md.
In 2009 Nicki helped launch YNN Buffalo, a 24 hour Time Warner Cable news station. She was a general assignment reporter covering Western New York and New York State politics, including the 2010 gubernatorial race.
Before Buffalo, Nicki headed to the Appalachian Mountains in the Tri-Cities (Tenn./Va.) in 2008 where she covered news and live reports on a multimedia platform as a News Channel 11 Morning show reporter and Tricities.com Content Coordinator. She delivered live shots & news packages for Media General’s WJHL-TV viewers, The Bristol Herald Courier & Tricities.com.
In 2007 Nicki shined in the Sunshine State at SNN News 6 in Sarasota, FL as a Reporter/Producer and a writer for the Sarasota Herald Tribune (a New York Times newspaper).
The Marylander was also a reporter/producer for CTV 76 in Prince George’s County and an English teacher at Charles Herbert Flowers High School.
The Baltimore City native was an associate producer for WJZ-TV 13 (CBS) and for BET News and Public Affairs. Here she produced segments for BET Nightly News, BET Tonight with Tavis Smiley, Ed Gordon, and Jacque Reid as well as Lead Story with Cheryl Martin.
Nicki began her journalistic career in Central New York reporting for National Public Radio at WAER-FM 88.3 (NPR) while attending Syracuse University.
Nicki is president of the Baltimore Association of Black Journalists, a former National Association of Black Journalists Region 1 Deputy Director and a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated (initiated in the Baltimore Metropolitan Alumnae Chapter Spring 2003).
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