Former KTVU morning anchor Mark Curtis has been hired as a weekend anchor and political/investigative reporter at the ABC affiliate in Providence, R.I.

Here’s a link to the press release that Mark posted on his Web site. And here’s a story that appeared on the Web site of his hometown paper, the Danville Weekly.

Curtis was at KTVU from 1993 until 2007. He then went freelance and covered the 2008 presidential campaign. He also wrote a book about the campaign, “Age of Obama: A Reporter’s Journey with Clinton, McCain and Obama in the Making of the President 2008.”