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David Scott Margulies (born April 15, 1948) is President and Chief Executive Officer of the public relations and crisis management firm The Margulies Communications Group a position he has held since 1986. Prior to forming the firm he was a television journalist, investigative reporter, foreign correspondent and news anchor.

Career
David Margulies began his career as a broadcast journalist following graduation from the University of Missouri Graduate Journalism program. He reported and anchored the news at WOAI-TV in San Antonio Texas, WGR-TV in Buffalo, New York, was a foreign correspondent covering the Middle East for NBC News and worked as a news anchor and reporter at WFAA-TV in Dallas. Margulies covered the Syrian invasion of Lebanon from behind Syrian lines and came under fire while covering the Lebanese civil war from the Green Line in Beirut. His stories appeared on NBC Nightly News and the Today Show. He filed the first on the scene reporter following the death of former president Lyndon Johnson for NBC News. In 1986 he founded The Margulies Communications Group which serves clients with crisis management, video production and media relations services. Margulies is frequently quoted as an expert in crisis communications. The firm represents corporate and government clients based in the U.S., Europe and Mexico. Margulies served as a spokesperson for Oprah Winfrey when she was sued by Texas Cattlemen in ____, And is the spokesperson for defendants in long running litigation involving the late Anna Nicole Smith’s litigation against heirs of the late J. Howard Marshall II. He has appeared on The O’Reilly Factor, The Today Show, Fox and Friends and E-Entertainment and is frequently quoted on crisis management issues in major national media outlets.

The firm was one of the first to utilize social media in high profile litigation in the Marshall case.

Margulies is the author of a book Save Your Company Save Your Job: Crisis Management in the Internet Age and has also served as an adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University teaching a course in crisis management.

Appointments
Margulies has served on the board of directors of The United Way of Greater Dallas, Communities in Schools, Patriot Paws, St. Alcuin Montessori School and Highland Academy.