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Carol Marin is a television and print journalist based in Chicago, Illinois.
Marin began her working career as an English teacher and debate coach in Illinois. After she married and moved to Tennessee, she was unable to find a teaching job. She began her journalism career in 1972 at WBIR-TV in Knoxville, Tennessee working as a reporter, anchor, and assistant news director. In 1976, she moved to WSM-TV in Nashville, where she was instrumental in the investigative reporting that ultimately led to the ouster and indictment of then-Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton.In 1978, Marin was hired by the NBC owned and operated station, WMAQ-TV, in Chicago, where she worked for almost two decades.
On 1 May 1997, she resigned her position as 6 and 10 p.m. news anchor in protest of the station's decision to give Jerry Springer a commentary segment on the evening news program that she anchored; her co-anchor Ron Magers resigned a few weeks later for the same reason. After the two anchors left the station, ratings plummeted and Springer quit. The conflict was one of many Marin had that built up to her resignation. She was also unhappy with the station's decision to hire a Chicago Bears lineman known for women and gay bashing, in addition to their questionable advertising agreements with companies.
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