Formerly a correspondent and substitute anchor for The National and a host of CBC News: Morning, he hosted Connect with Mark Kelley on CBC News Network from 2009 to 2012,[1] and joined the newsmagazine the fifth estate in 2012.
[2] A graduate of Concordia University in Montreal, the fluently bilingual Kelley began reporting from within Quebec in the 1980s before joining CBC in 1990.
From 2002 to 2004, he was co-host of the investigative journalism show CBC News: Disclosure with Diana Swain.
Recently, Kelley has moved away from being a regular reporter to focusing on documentaries and investigative journalism, making a series of ongoing stories on The National.
In November 2006, he began a series called "7" where he would spend seven days in someone else's shoes, such as a teacher at British Columbia's most troubled high school.