Content Creator for Websites & Social Media & for Marketing Purposes
We help build business through social media marketing, media relations & video production
Profile
My Background
My Background
My Background
I’ve worked in the field of Social Media Marketing, Content Creating, Media Relations, Website Design & Video Production for 20 plus years, helping brand and grow businesses. Prior to that I was an Award Winning Broadcast Journalist, TV News Anchor and News Reporter specializing in medical and health reporting in major TV markets. I gradu
I’ve worked in the field of Social Media Marketing, Content Creating, Media Relations, Website Design & Video Production for 20 plus years, helping brand and grow businesses. Prior to that I was an Award Winning Broadcast Journalist, TV News Anchor and News Reporter specializing in medical and health reporting in major TV markets. I graduated college having majored in Mass Communications, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism and Video Production.
My Skill Set
My Background
My Background
My experience is broad and covers all the daily challenges you would expect in the field of Social Media and Website Marketing, Media Relations and Video Production.
My work consistently gets positive results.
My clients have included medical centers, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, architectural companies and more.
My Goals
My Background
My Goals
My passion is helping people and companies reach their business goals. Especially in the field of medicine.
I have helped build businesses, including the medical practices of doctors, medical centers and helped boost the credibility and reputations of physicians, hospitals and companies, increasing their business and getting them the recognition they deserve.
Making a Difference
Making A Difference is What Marilyn Does Best
From her groundbreaking investigative series "Cancer At The Pumps" which changed Florida laws requiring vapor recovery systems on gas pumps, to "Dangerous Diets" which triggered a congressional investigation into the diet industry, to the "Ryan White Story", about a young man whose courage helped educate the world about AIDS and contributed to Congress passing the "Ryan White Act."
What matters most to Marilyn is making a difference in people's lives.
Former News Anchor, Medical and Investigative Reporter for WSVN Miami, she began her broadcasting career in Bismarck, North Dakota at KFYR-TV AM/FM as the first female general assignment reporter and news anchor.
After nearly three years in North Dakota she jumped to WRTV in Indianapolis.
Medical reporting became her special calling even from her career beginnings and winning awards for her stories including: receiving the United Press International first-place award for her special report on kidney transplants; and a first-place award from the Associated Press for a news series examining the plight of the facially disfigured. This series of reports also earned her the prestigious CASPER Award from the Indiana State Medical Association.
After breaking the Ryan White story, Marilyn moved to WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. where several of her medical stories are archived at the National Library of Congress.
She then took a break from the broadcast industry and entered the world of politics at its highest level, serving with the White House Press Advance Corps under the first Bush Administration.
Miss Mitzel declined an opportunity to join the White House Staff to rejoin the private sector.
During her career she has interviewed five U.S. Presidents.
Leaving the White House, she re-entered the world of broadcasting joining WSVN in Miami as a health reporter and news anchor.
She received an Emmy Award for her half-hour special, "A Matter of Life and Death," and an Emmy nomination for her series, "Hope Never Dies."
The Dade County Trial Lawyers Association presented Mitzel with the Consumer Awareness Media Award for her insightful reporting of topical health and safety information.
She was named one of South Florida's "UP AND COMERS" by Price Waterhouse and Medical Communicator of the Year by the Dade County Medical Association.
She also received the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Associated Press, and Special Recognition Awards from the American Heart Association, Florida and Broward Dietetic Associations, and the South Florida Diabetes Foundation.
Marilyn continues making a difference the healthcare industry.
She produces and distributes medical and health information to the worldwide web and the media.
She was also an Adjunct Professor at Florida International University.
A native of North Dakota, Marilyn earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mass Communications. She attended Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism. She continued her education working on her Masters in Journalism at Butler University in Indianapolis.
Marilyn currently resides in the Indianapolis metropolitan area.
She is the Marketing Director for The CyberKnife Center of Miami, a premier cancer center in South Florida.
In addition she lends her marketing skills to Pilots N Paws, a non-profit dedicated to saving the lives of abandoned animals, providing Freedom Flights to their new forever homes.
Greatest Accomplishments
Emmy Award
Emmy/half-hour special "A Matter of Life and Death"
Medical series helped raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to build the Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center by selling Bricks for Trauma - Emmy/half hour special "A Promise is A Promise" The story about a mother who never left Edwina, her daughter's side from the moment she went into a coma at age 16 until her mother died many decades later.
Congressional Investigation
Medical series, "Dangerous Diets" triggered a congressional investigation into diet industry and the danger is fast weight loss requiring all weight loss companies to change their diet plans to a safer, slower method greatly reducing the risk of heart attack and stroke
Changed Florida Law
Medical series, "Cancer at the Pumps" changed Florida law, requiring vapor recovery systems on all gas pumps to help prevent cancer while filling vehicles with fuel. Worked in conjunction with state representative Elaine Bloom to make that happen
Broke Ryan White Story
Broke the Ryan White story about a young Indiana boy whose courage helped educate the world about AIDS, calming the fear and hysteria that came with it and contributed to Congress passing the "Ryan White Act" which remains the largest federal funded bill for research and treatment of AIDS patients
National Library of Congress
Medical story is archived in the National Library of Congress about a three year old musical prodigy who was born blind yet began playing by ear as a toddler. His favorite is classical music and Bach
Paying It Forward
Established the internship program at KFYR TV in Bismarck, ND
Biggest promoter of WSVN TV's internship program helping launch the careers of hundreds of young broadcast journalists over a 17-year period