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Mary Murphy, Journalist

Mary Murphy is a TV correspondent at CBS’ “The Insider”, curating "The BackStory", a cornerstone of the broadcast. She is a news producer at “Entertainment Tonight”; contributor to The Los Angeles Times Magazine, USA Weekend Magazine, the New York Post and The Hollywood Reporter. Murphy is also a Senior Lecturer at USC's prestigious Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism.

Murphy was the senior writer at TV Guide Magazine covering all aspects of the media from prime-time television to sports to Presidential elections. For TV Guide Murphy interviewed Presidents George Bush and Bill Clinton and Presidential candidates John Kerry, Al Gore and Bob Dole.

She began her career as a reporter for The St. Louis Post-Dispatch and then moved to The Los Angeles Times for eight years. She was hired away from The Times to become a correspondent for New York/New West Magazine. In 1980’s she became the West Coast Roving Editor for Esquire Magazine. In 2007 she served as the Entertainment Editor for MyTime.com, responsible for shooting video and writing a daily blog about the entertainment industry.

Murphy has interviewed everyone from Fidel Castro to Michael Jackson, Madonna and Oprah Winfrey to Rev. Rick Warren. She has covered every aspect of the TV news business including  stories and investigative pieces about the CNN Tailwind Scandal,  “Meet The Press”, “60 Minutes”, ” Today Show” and “Tonight with Jay Leno”.

Not just a magazine and newspaper writer, Murphy is also the co-author of the book “Blood Cold”, an investigation of the Robert Blake murder scandal.

Other print and television credits include Esquire Magazine, CNN” Showbiz Tonight “, The TV Guide Network. She has frequently appeared as an expert on entertainment on such shows as Fox News, The E Channel,” “Inside Edition” and MS-NBC and A & E “Biography”, “The Today Show” and “Good Morning America”.

Murphy was recognized in the industry for her extensive writing about the world of religious strife and heroism for Readers Digest’s magazine. She traveled to such countries as Rwanda, Sri Lanka, The Philippines and Cambodia. She most recently returned from India where she investigated the plight of the child stars of “Slumdog Millionaire” a story that ran in the International Divisions of Readers Digest as well as on NBC’s “Dateline”. She then spent a week in the slums of New Delhi for a story about the amazing courage the female community in the slums of India. In a story closer to home Murphy traveled to a town in rural Texas to investigate how the hit and run killing of a 4-year-old child led to an incredible act of forgiveness that healed racial tensions between blacks and whites in the community, this story has led to better relations within the Texas correctional system.