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Journalist and publisher Marian Alexis Scott was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia. She is the granddaughter of W.A. Scott II, the founder of the Atlanta Daily World, which was the nation's first black-owned daily newspaper. After graduating from Booker T. Washington High School, she attended Barnard College in New York City and Spelman College in Atlanta. She also attended the Columbia University School of Journalism as a summer participant in the 1974 Michelle Clark Fellowship Program. Scott is also a 1992 graduate of the Regional Leadership Institute and a 1991 graduate of Leadership Atlanta.

After a twenty-two year career with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Cox Enterprises, Inc, where she worked her way up from reporter to vice president of community affairs at the and then director of diversity at Cox, she joined the family business. Her duties include publisher and featured commentator on " The Georgia Gang," a week-in-review program on politics, which is a broadcast on FOX 5 in Atlanta. Scott is also active in nonprofit organizations such as St. Jude's Recovery Center, Kenny Leon's True Colors theater company, and she is a board member of Atlanta History Center, the High Museum of Art, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau and Central Atlanta Progress.

In 2003, she was appointed by Mayor Shirley Franklin to the board of the Atlanta Workforce Development Agency. Scott has received many awards and honors, including the 2004 Imperial Court Daughters of Isis Hall of Fame Award, the 2004 TD Jake's Megafest Phenomenal Woman Award, an honorary doctor of humane letters from Argosy University in Atlanta in 2003, and a 2001 Citizen of the Year Award from Southwest Hospital and Medical Center, just to name a few. She is also the president to the Atlanta Press Club.

Scott currently resides in Atlanta. She has two sons.