About Mort Meisner Associates

Mort Meisner Associates (MMA) was founded in 1997 by Mort Meisner, who brings to the talent placement business invaluable skills gleaned from a more than 27-year career in the news industry.

Over the last 9 years, Mort Meisner Associates - based in Huntington Woods, Michigan, and Kansas City, Missouri - has developed into a premier placement agency, representing a diverse group of news personnel, including on-air talent, producers, managers and writers.

Placing talent at the right place, at the right time.

That's what Mort Meisner Associates is all about. In the highly competitive, fast-paced news industry, Mort Meisner Associates is considered the placement agency, placing talent in major markets like WLS-Chicago, WNBC-New York, WDIV-Detroit, WXYZ-Detroit, KCOP-Los Angeles, WPVI-Philadelphia, WESH-Orlando, KMGH-Denver and KDFW-Dallas, and in medium markets such as WHAS-Louisville and WSYX-Columbus. Mort Meisner Associates also represents on-air talent and producers at respected News organizations such as CNBC, CNN and Dateline.

It's the old adage - "It's not always what you know, but whom you know" - holds ever true for the news business. In addition, knowing the right people, in the right markets, is the very strength Mort Meisner Associates offers to professionals in the industry. Mort Meisner Associates' staff collaborates with recruiters, station management and market research firms - all looking for just the right talent to hire - in an effort to place each client, no matter the position, market or salary. These connections, at the very least, guarantee that a client's tape will get where it needs to go, and be seen.

Mort Meisner Associates's staff - consisting of Mort Meisner, John Sprugel, Leslie Mangas-Meisner and talent coach Joni Brander - enjoys the reputation of being highly skilled, experienced professionals who know good talent when they see it, and know how to make the most of it.