Mark Starowicz

{{Short description|Canadian journalist and producer}}

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|birth_place = Worksop, England

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|occupation = journalist and radio and TV producer

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|awards = Order of Canada
Order of Ontario

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Mark Starowicz, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC|OOnt}} ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|s|t|ɑː|r|ə|w|ɪ|t|s}} {{Respell|STAR|ə|wits}};{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1YFBE8vAdc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/Z1YFBE8vAdc |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|title=Mark Starowicz steps down|website=YouTube |date=30 July 2015 |access-date=28 July 2020}}{{cbignore}} born September 8, 1946) is a Canadian journalist and producer.

Born in Worksop, England, the son of Polish émigrés, he and his family immigrated to Montreal in 1954. He attended Loyola High School and received a B.A. from McGill University in 1968. In 1964, he started as a reporter for the Montreal Gazette. He moved to the McGill Daily in 1968 and to the Toronto Star in 1969.{{cite encyclopedia|url=http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/mark-starowicz/ |title=Mark Starowicz |encyclopedia=The Canadian Encyclopedia |access-date=2008-07-14 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608085200/http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0007667 |archive-date=2011-06-08 }}

From 1970 to 1979, he was a producer for CBC Radio and was responsible for revamping As It Happens and creating Sunday Morning.

From 1982 to 1992, he was the executive producer of the CBC Television newsmagazine program, The Journal. From 1992 to 2015, he was an executive documentary producer for the CBC. He was the executive producer of the 2000 mini-series, Canada: A People's History, and served as head of the CBC Documentary Unit. In 2004, McClelland & Stewart published his book, Making History: The Remarkable Story Behind Canada: A People's History ({{ISBN|978-0-7710-8262-7}}), about his experiences.{{cite web|url=http://www.mcclelland.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771082627|title=Making History: The Remarkable Story Behind Canada: A People's History|work=McClelland & Stewart|access-date=2008-07-14}}

After overseeing documentary production at the CBC since 1992, Starowicz announced he would leave the organization in July 2015.{{cite news|title=Long-time executive Mark Starowicz leaving CBC |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/long-time-executive-mark-starowicz-leaving-cbc/article25770746/}} He planned to launch his own independent production company, Grand Passage Media, which will specialize in documentaries.