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About State Circle
For balanced reporting on political happenings, Marylanders have turned to MPT's State Circle for more than 20 years. No other source brings you as much legislative news during the General Assembly session — and now it continues year-round. Host Jeff Salkin, and reporters Lou Davis, Mindy Mintz, and Charles Robinson bring you up-to-the-minute, in-depth analysis of major issues and pending bills. Interviews with experts shed light on various viewpoints and actions.
Reporter Bios:
Jeff Salkin
Host, State Circle
Jeff Salkin is a Maryland native with more than 20 years' experience as a broadcast journalist at television and radio stations in the Baltimore and Washington markets.
He joined Maryland Public Television (MPT) in 1991 and has become one of the most respected and recognizable journalists on the local public affairs scene. During his tenure with MPT he has served as moderator for political debates; hosted live coverage of governors' annual ęState of the Stateę addresses, inaugurals, and numerous broadcast ętown hallę meetings; and has anchored MPT's weekly State Circle broadcast during the Maryland General Assembly session each year. For several years, he produced and anchored MPT's newsbreaks during primetime broadcast hours.
As MPT's executive producer of Bloomberg Morning News, a weekday morning financial news report that aired in the late 1990s, Mr. Salkin used his prior experience as manager of media services for the Nasdaq Stock Market to help create and launch the program. It was a co-production of MPT and Bloomberg L.P. and was syndicated nationally to PBS stations. Later he served as an anchor for MPT's Newsnigbt Maryland public affairs program that aired from 1997 to 2001. From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Salkin was host of the weekly, Emmy award-winning public affairs program Inside Maryland.
Today Mr. Salkin hosts "State Circle," which has expanded to become a year-round program focused on state government and public policy matters, "Direct Connection," MPT's interactive discussion program, and MPT's new local financial news program, "Business Connection."
Prior to joining MPT, Mr. Salkin worked as a news reporter for commercial television stations WBAL, WJZ, and WJLA in the Baltimore-Washington area.
He is an alumnus of Baltimore's Gilman School and earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Salkin resides in Howard County with his wife and three daughters.
Lou Davis
Correspondent, State Circle
Since 1983, Lou Davis has covered state government news for WMAR-TV's 2News, reporting on Maryland's legislative and executive branches.
Prior to his work at WMAR-TV, Davis was a NBC news correspondent, joining the network in 1970. Dispatched to Vietnam for a year, he followed the first American troops that entered Cambodia in 1971 and was the lead correspondent during Vietnamization, the gradual withdrawal of US troops from the war.
In 1973, Davis covered the Yom Kippur War for NBC. He was with Israeli troops as they fought in the Sinai Desert in one of the largest armored battles in history, and he covered the Israeli Defense Forces' capture of the Golan Heights.
Davis' 40-plus years of broadcast experience includes stops in Philadelphia, New York City, Cleveland and Atlanta before coming to 2News in Baltimore. He has won three Emmys and numerous other professional awards.
Charles Robinson
Correspondent, State Circle
Charles F. Robinson, III, is an award winning journalist who works in television, radio, and print. Born in Richmond, VA, Robinson grew up in Baltimore, MD, and began his journalism career by delivering the Baltimore Afro-American Newspaper while still in junior high school.
Since 2001 he has served Maryland Public Television as a political reporter for State Circle. Currently he is the associate producer on the MPT's Hard Working Families series, which recently won a CINE Golden Eagle award.
During Robinson's career, he has worked in television as a reporter (WWBT-TV, Richmond, VA; WPEC-TV; West Palm Beach, FL; WCPO-TV, Cincinnati, OH) and national correspondent (BET); radio as news director (WEAA-FM, Baltimore, MD), political analyst (WEAA-FM, Baltimore, MD), and executive producer (TPT Radio Network, Washington, DC); and print as editor-in-chief (Sphinx Magazine).
During his career, he has covered the impact of the Rodney King verdict; the story behind the monument to the Amistad revolt; the history of the Buffalo Soldiers, and the Million Man March. His coverage of Nelson Mandela's first trip to the United States won him an award from the National Association of Black Journalist (1991).
Robinson attended Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, where began his career in broadcasting at the campus radio station WJRB (now WVCW). WVCW was named by Billboard Magazine in 1979 as "one of the most innovative college campus radio stations" in the nation.
Mindy Mintz
Correspondent, State Circle
Mindy Mintz is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years experience in broadcasting.
After six years of award-winning television reporting in the midwest, Mindy moved to the Baltimore area to report and anchor for WBAL-TV. After earning her law degree from the University of Maryland in 1989, Mintz practiced trial law and worked in a range of public policy fields. Mintz returned to her journalistic pursuits in the mid-1990's, reporting for Maryland Public Television.
Mintz has received several top honors from the Associated Press and United Press International for her television reporting, investigative and documentary work. She was selected as the top reporter in the McGraw-Hill television stations and earned the National Education Association's Learning Through Broadcasting Award. Most recently, Mintz was nominated for an Emmy Award by the Capital Region for her reporting on lead paint issues.
Mintz lives in Baltimore with her husband and two daughters and is active in public service having served on the boards of Public Justice Center , Baltimore Homeless Relief Advisory Board and East Baltimore Resources, Inc.
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