Marc J. Siegal is a Connecticut-based video journalist, field producer, editor and former newspaper reporter serving New England and the Boston–New York corridor.

His work has included breaking-news coverage in Miami, reporting for The Miami Herald and the Rutland Herald, and field production and videography for broadcast clients. His archive, The Miami Tapes, preserves hundreds of early-1990s Miami news videos.

Marc J. Siegal—spelled S-I-E-G-A-L—is a journalist and media professional. He is not the physician and television medical analyst Marc K. Siegel.

Siegal was born and raised in Miami. The son of an avid amateur photographer, he grew up in a home where no event or milestone went undocumented on Tri-X or Kodachrome. These early experiences ultimately influenced Siegal to switch majors from French to Film. A 1988 internship at Fox Television’s newly-launched America’s Most Wanted paved the way for Siegal to pursue a career as a magazine show researcher and field producer at such forgettable endeavors as Inside Report with Penny Daniels; and Crimewatch Tonight with Ike Pappas. Eventually Siegal would return to his roots and pick up a camera himself, establishing himself as the definitive “nightcrawler” in Miami’s competitive stringer market. Siegal’s exploits on Miami’s mean streets didn’t go unnoticed in the media, and he was the subject of articles in Miami New Times, American Journalism Review, the Los Angeles Times, among others. Siegal’s nightcrawling became the subject of magazine show segments at home and abroad, on NBC and RTL plus. When the Miami Herald accompanied Siegal on his nightly rounds, Siegal inquired about how one becomes a newspaper reporter. This interaction led to Siegal joining that paper as a police desk reporter and later as a columnist, penning a weekly column on crime and public safety issues that appeared in the Herald’s Neighbors supplement. Seeking to hone his print skills, Siegal traded Miami’s mayhem for bucolic Vermont, spending a year as a general assignment reporter at the Rutland Herald, where reporters were on a first-name basis with the likes of Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean; and would call them at home and ask the missus if he was in. A Vermont winter or two was enough for Miami-native Siegal, who now, with dependents to feed, pursued a series of gigs in marketing communications until the attacks of September 11, when, seeking to find a first aid course, Siegal suddenly found himself a matriculated student in nursing school. This not-uncharacteristic pivot would lead to a twenty-year career as a registered nurse, mostly in inpatient psychiatric settings. Siegal somehow survived the experience, mostly unscathed. A glutton for punishment, Siegal obtained a master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages and tried his hand at teaching 7th graders in a public school, at the height of the covid epidemic. Regaining his senses three weeks later, Siegal laid down his chalk and his stethoscope and formally retired from demanding or disagreeable employment. Siegal currently works part-time at his local TV station as a news photographer/editor.