Marilyn Mitzel is a television reporter and news anchor, originally from North Dakota.

Education

Journalism at Arizona State University. She worked on her master's degree in journalism at Butler University in Indianapolis.

Awards and honours

For her work on health & medical news and WSVN:

• Outstanding Achievement from the Associated Press.
• Special Recognition Awards from the American Heart Association.

Emmy Awards:

• A Matter of Life and Death, series.
• Hope Never Dies, series.

Other awards:

• The Consumer Awareness Media Award from Dade County Trial Lawyers Association.

Her series Cancer at the Pumps is cited as contributing to a change in Florida Law, requiring vapor recovery systems on all gas pumps.

Broadcasters

• WJLA-TV in Washington D.C.
• WRTV in Indianapolis.
• WSVN in Miami.
• KFYR-TV in Bismarck, North Dakota.