The Woolfolk Group

Mike Woolfolk is President/CEO of The Woolfolk Group, LLC, a media relations and consulting firm founded in Columbia, South Carolina and operating from Rochester Hills, Michigan and Co-Founder/Partner of Robinson-Woolfolk Media Group, a training firm founded and based in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also an award winning broadcast journalist with more than 20 years of experience.

Mike is a native of Detroit, Michigan. After graduation from Detroit Catholic Central High School, he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcasting from Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Mike's professional television career began while he was still in school at Southern. He began working for WBRZ-TV in Baton Rouge as weekend news producer and assignment editor in 1987. He later added responsibilities as sports reporter and anchor followed by news reporter and substitute anchor before leaving the station in 1989.

From Baton Rouge, Mike moved to Las Vegas, Nevada where he worked as weekend sports anchor and reporter for KVBC-TV. From 1989 to 1991, he covered a variety of sports stories including the NCAA Basketball Championships, UNLV basketball coach Jerry Tarkanian's troubles with the NCAA, and major boxing matches involving Mike Tyson, Buster Douglas, Evander Holyfield, Thomas Hearns, Sugar Ray Leonard, Pernell Whitaker, Roberto Duran and others.

In 1991, Mike moved to Jackson, Mississippi where he began working as a weekday sports anchor for Mississippi News Tonight, but later returned to the news department as an anchor and reporter. Upon the cancellation of Mississippi News Tonight, Mike remained in Jackson to work for WAPT-TV where he anchored the morning news and later the 6:00 PM and 10:00 PM newscasts. In 1994, Mike received the Mississippi Associated Press Broadcasters Association award for best public affairs program for a special he produced on addressing problems in secondary education.

Mike moved to Columbia, South Carolina in January 1996 where he helped launch WACH FOX News at Ten. He spent 14 years as a member of the WACH FOX news team and left the station in March 2010 as the longest tenured evening news anchor in Columbia. During his time with WACH-TV, Mike helped build the ratings to the point where WACH FOX News at Ten, was among the highest rated prime-time newscasts in the country. WACH FOX News at Ten also earned recognition as Columbia’s best newscast for (phone number hidden)8 by the South Carolina Associated Press Broadcasters Association.

Mike is an active member of the National Association of Black Journalists for which he has served in capacities including Vice President–Broadcast, Convention Chairman, Region IV Director, Council of Presidents Chairman and Elections Committee Vice Chairman. Mike has also served as an instructor and speaker at the NABJ Multi-Media Short Course, held annually at North Carolina A&T State University, since 1997 and remains committed to programs aimed at producing the next generation of journalists. In 2007, Mike was inducted into the NABJ Region III Hall of Fame in recognition of meritorious service to the organization and 15 years of journalism work in the Southeast region of the country.