Chester Baker Email & Phone Number

United States

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York

- Create daily content and manage CBS Sports and CBS Sports Network social media accounts on multiple platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. - React in real-time to breaking news and all major sporting events with custom GIFs, memes, and Photoshops, and videos throughout social media platforms. - Curate content for CBSSports.com by monitoring Twitter and news sources to work with editorial leads and writers to populate articles and stories on the site. - Develop creative designs for social graphics to react to newsworthy sporting events. - Accounts include CBS Sports (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram) NFL on CBS (FB and Twitter), SEC on CBS (FB and Twitter), College Basketball on CBS (FB and Twitter), NBA on CBS (Twitter) and CBS MLB (Twitter). - Cover live-programming on CBS and CBS Sports Network such as NFL, college football, and college basketball games and studio shows. - Create social media campaigns to engage fans and coincide with major sporting events and press releases. - Analyze and create social reports to establish best practices and learn from competitors as well as our own content. - Work in studio to help create social media segments for on-air programming integration including NFL Today, College Football Today, Inside College Football, Inside College Basketball, and March Madness programming.

New York, New York

- Assisted in management of nine CBS Sports social media accounts using Hootsuite with a combined Twitter and Facebook reach of over 200,000 people. - Other social media services used include Mass Relevance, Instagram, TweetReach, and Pinterest. - Reviewed teams’ usage of social media accounts, new trends in the industry, and applications. - Led project on the 75 year history of March Madness entailing the creation of Facebook galleries, photo collecting, and description writing for NCAA Tournament Top 10 lists and specials. - Worked in CBS studios during broadcasts to live-tweet college basketball games, NFL playoffs, and content from The NFL Today and studio shows.

- Head writer and editor for Chicago Cubs 101, a member of the Sports Media 101 network. - Duties included daily updates about all Chicago Cubs related news, including game recaps, feature stories, quick hits, and all other newsworthy items. - Responsible for creating original content for site, using Wordpress to publish new articles on site.

- Primary duties include quality assurance of over 70 sports related web sites, each devoted to an individual team. Assurance entails maintaing proper headlines, format, photos, article tags, and excerpts for every article posted on the network of sites. - Submit articles for publication on wide range of subjects. Work has been published on sites devoted to the Chicago Cubs, New York Gitants, Miami Marlins, and New Orleans Saints, among others. - Assist in other projects of the company, such as backfilling new sites, publishing special features, as well as maintaining knowledge of all major sports.

Bronx, Ny

- Responsibilities included copy editing, making layout decisions, photo positioning and managing staff writers to develop weekly sports section of Fordham University student newspaper. - Duties also included writing weekly columns entitled “Overtime” and/or “Senior Profiles,” while also covering the Fordham football and basketball teams. - Prior to position, worked with Sports Editor as Assistant Sports Editor and beat writer for water polo and softball teams.

Harrison, Nj

- Assisted in the daily operations of communications department of New York Red Bulls- Created content for newyorkredbulls.com, including interviews with current players, features on the team, and community events. - Game day duties included press box set up, transcribing player quotes for media, director spotting for television outlet, managing media will call. - Daily duties included press clippings, managing credential requests, attending team training sessions.

London, United Kingdom

- Responsible for filing and organization of media related items for London based charity. - Managed picture desk for use on home page of company and content management system, as well as helped in the compilation of stories for the "Year in Review". - Attended events of the charity, assisting athletes and families.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communications, Journalism

Activities and Societies: Sports Editor of Newspaper (The Ram), Mock Trial Team

High School Degree