Mark C. Healey is the founder and executive editor of Gotham Baseball.
After serving an internship at WFAN-AM in 1995, Mark began his career in journalism in 1996, and as the producer of a new morning drive news program at Stamford, Connecticut’s AM station, WSTC. Soon after, he was hired as the Evening News Director and Anchor at WRKL-Am in Rockland County New York.
In 1998, Mark was hired by the Associated Press to work on the MLB desk as an editorial assistant and dictationist, communicating with sports writers in different cities around the country, serving as a conduit between the writers and the editors, and then assisting in finalizing the story for the sports wire. After the World Series that year, Mark joined the first-ever all-digital newsroom, “AP Megasports,” and soon started writing game previews and columns that would be published nationally.
Still working at AP, Mark joined the weekly newspaper, the Brooklyn Skyline, in 2001, serving as a freelance reporter to cover the inaugural season of the Brooklyn Cyclones, the NY Penn League affiliate (Low-A) of the New York Mets. He also started to freelance at Inside Pitch, the official Mets magazine at the time.
In 2005, Mark founded Gotham Baseball magazine.
He was the online editor for Baseball Digest magazine in 2009, the host of “Baseball Digest LIVE” podcast, and “The Baseball Digest Fantasy Baseball” program on Sirius XM. In 2020, he published “Gotham Baseball: New York’s All-Time Team” for the History Press, which was featured by the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY.
Currently, Healey is the Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning Wave newspaper in Rockaway Beach, NY, which he joined in 2014. He has appeared on ESPN, SNY, WFAN, WCBS, and NPR.