Mark Llewellyn
Mark Llewellyn is the executive producer of Sunday Night. He has been executive producer of news and public affairs at the 7 network since 2006.
During this time, his projects have included producing Seven’s top-rating election coverage, Your Call ’07 and breaking the moving story of the under ‘16s, the Australian boys who fought in World War II.
Mark has also covered the madness and mayhem of the Cannes film festival with Sonia Kruger for Today Tonight, produced the network’s acclaimed 2008 Anzac Day coverage live from Gallipoli and worked on Seven News’ award-winning investigation into Nike's use of indentured labour in Malaysia.
Mark began his journalism career in radio in 1983, starting out at the ABC on AM, PM and The World Today.
In 1987, he was poached by Mike Carlton to be overnight reporter on Carlton’s and Sydney’s number one breakfast show.
Mark joined Channel Nine in 1988, working as a reporter for Live At Five and later, A Current Affair.
From 1991 to 1994, he was the European correspondent for A Current Affair in London.
He was the first Australian journalist on the Iran / Iraq border (at the end of the first Iraq war) to cover the humanitarian crisis of Iraqi refugees flooding into Iran. He was also the first television journalist to find Christopher Skase in Majorca, Spain.
Other stories he worked on include the Romanian miners’ riots and the Yugoslavian war from both Croatia and Serbia. He also reported on the fifth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster from inside the reactor and covered the tragic side-effects of those suffering radiation poisoning.
In 1995, Mark became a producer at 60 Minutes and then the following year, made the move to Channel Seven to work as a reporter on Witness.
He returned to Nine in 1999, again as a producer at 60 Minutes. In 2000, he was promoted to supervising producer, a role he held until 2003 when he was made executive producer of A Current Affair.
From 2004 to 2005, Mark ran 60 Minutes and then in 2006, he was made head of news and current affairs at Nine. During this time, he produced the Kerry Packer documentary (broadcast after the media mogul’s death), as well as a Beaconsfield Miners’ Special which secured a national audience of more than 3 million viewers.
