Jason Foster Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, NC, US

--Write news, analysis and features for Major League Baseball’s official website, contribute research to assist MLB’s other writers and content partners, and provide on-site reporting as needed.--Write and send push notifications to MLB.com’s mobile customers to promote news and highlights.--Wrote stories that led the MLB.com homepage, including analysis.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

--Led Sporting News' day-to-day coverage of Major League Baseball, managing SN's baseball staff in production of daily and enterprise work. --In first season as MLB editor, unique users to SN's baseball pages grew by 2.6 million over the previous season. --As a writer and BBWAA member, generated 5 million page views and 2.9 million unique users with.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

--Generated 7.2 million page views and nearly 900,000 unique users with original features, opinion columns and news stories across the NFL, NBA, MLB, college sports and more, with emphasis on nighttime breaking and trending news.--Nominated for a Society for American Baseball Research award in Historical Analysis/Commentary in 2016.--Managed SN night.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

--Three-month contract position that included advising and coaching freelance writers, most of whom had little or no professional experience, on editorial best practices for Charlotte digital media startup.--Served as copy editor on select stories, editing for accuracy, style, clarity and crispness.--Wrote stories and columns as needed.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

--Edited copy and wrote compelling headlines for news, business and sports stories in print and online for The Charlotte Observer and The (Raleigh) News & Observer, editing for content, clarity, accuracy, crispness and search engine optimization. --Was lead copy editor on "Failing the Test," an Observer/N&O investigative series on the flaws in North.

--Supervised as many as four staffers, plus a team of freelancers, in focused coverage of City Hall, growth and development, education and other topics for the North Raleigh News and Midtown Raleigh News, twice-weekly N&O publications (and companion websites) with a combined print circulation of about 135,000. --Brought significant differentiation of.

--Fully transitioned into role of business editor in May 2009 and substantially increased the frequency and depth of The Herald's coverage of retail, economic development, consumer affairs and small businesses, eventually earning a first-place award in the Business Reporting category from the S.C. Press Association. --Helped supervise newsroom staff of six.

--Coordinated daily and weekend local news coverage in York County, S.C. (pop. 210,000 at the time), the second-largest county in metro Charlotte.--Co-managed seven reporters, assigned and edited stories and helped with long-term planning. --Posted and updated breaking news at heraldonline.com, utilizing SEO techniques, and assisted online editor with.

--Worked with city editor to plan and execute the daily report in a three-county, 300,000-person coverage area within the Charlotte metro market.--Edited most, if not all, local copy for each day's edition and coordinated nighttime breaking news coverage, which included posting and managing digital content at heraldonline.com. --Helped manage 8-10.

--Covered a newly created, enterprise-driven beat focused on lifestyle issues in ever-growing and changing northern York County (Fort Mill, Tega Cay, Lake Wylie), an affluent community of around 40,000 people just south of Charlotte. These issues included commuting, growth, entertainment, technology trends, parenting and more. Most of these stories played.

--Covered the city of Rock Hill (pop. 60,000), a premier beat at the 32,000-circulation McClatchy daily, using a mix of daily and enterprise stories to report on how decisions made by city leaders affected the lives of residents. --Also wrote profiles of interesting residents and features on various goings on around the city.--Frequently broke stories.

--Covered three towns in fast-growing eastern Gaston County, N.C., just west of Charlotte, writing about local government decisions, interesting people, growth and development and other municipal issues for the 35,000-circulation daily.--Also wrote crime, business and education stories, along with other general assignments.--Was the primary reporter on.

--Interviewed Oscar- and Emmy-winning film composers and wrote CD reviews, feature stories and columns for the magazine and its website, www.filmscoremonthly.com.--Wrote liner notes for the magazine's CD releases of the scores to "Hombre" (David Rose) and "Beneath the 12-mile Reef" (Bernard Herrmann).--Former member of the International Film Music Critics.