Colin Benjamin Email & Phone Number

United States

Caribbean Nations

Enhancing the content and storytelling on the senior Men’s team, regional professional cricket (WI Championship & Super50 and youth teams) as well as working with West Indies Legends.• Coordinating distribution with digital team across all platforms including windiescricket.com and social media channels, working to agreed timescales and deadlines• Working with digital and marketing team to ensure creation of collateral to work with content and stories within a reasonable time frame – e.g. key images, infographics, etc Public Relations• Assist in planning and delivering press briefings and/or press conferences.• Assist in updating all media databases.• Provide senior management with updates on all Cricket West Indies news and other important cricket news as required.• Ensure that all relevant Cricket West Indies news is announced appropriately, in a timely and professional manner, working closely with CWI media officers and CWI digital team.Media Relations• Build and maintain strong professional relationships with key cricket and sports correspondents in the region.• Recommend and execute the plan to re-establish relationships with key cricket and sports correspondents in the region.• Actively engage the media and other avenues to ensure the cricketing public is regularly provided with information relevant to CWI’s events, series and tournaments

Freelance sports writer for Sportsmax (www.Sportsmax.tv) the Caribbean’s largest sports news cable network.Highlights:Covering the September 2018 Brazil vs USA International friendly at Met Life Stadium, New Jersey Sports interview with the Hon Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St Vincent & Grenadines & then Chairman of the CARICOM Sub-committee on cricket

Writer on West Indies cricket, for largest website covering cricket in the world.Conducting interviews with players, coaches and administrators in the West Indies cricket communityFeature articles with retired players and administrators regarding the history of West Indies cricket

Writer on West Indies cricket, for the India based website that is second to ESPN Cricinfo in covering cricket globally.Conducting interviews with players, coaches and administrators in the West Indies cricket community.Producing targeted West Indies cricket articles that would be appealing to the large India fan audience that subscribes to www.cricbuzz.com

Freelance sports journalist covering cricket and for Indian sports website Firstpost.com

Trinidad And Tobago

Freelance sports journalist covering football, cricket and athletics (track & field) for Trinidad & Tobago’s second largest newspaper

King City, Ontario, Canada

Digital Content Producer (Print) for the inaugural season of the GT20 Canada league, the first T20 cricket league in North America.Duties:• Conducting pre tournament print interviews on www.GT20.ca with Canadian and International players • Assisting the GT20 Canada marketing department in pre tournament promotional events • Supporting the GT20 tournament director and head of communications in engaging the Canadian and International cricket media with all media request and press conference engagements • Responsible for all post match reports on www.GT20.ca • Assisting the GT20 social media team with match day twitter and Instagram updates

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Combing media and administrative duties for the largest soccer league in the Ontario province of Toronto, Canada Duties:• Appear on site at League 1 Ontario matches two hours before to make sure teams, officials and stadium workers have everything set up to league code and standards• Managing League 1 Ontario’s live match day twitter account (@L1Olive) and give updated coverage at league1ontario.com• Contribute news pieces at league1.ontario.com

Canada, United States

Freelance Media and Game day operations assistant to the Canada Soccer Association Communications departmentDuties:• Conducting written player interviews on www.canadasoccer.com with Canadian players who participated in the 2017 Canadian championship, 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup and International friendly versus Jamaica •Operating the Canada Soccer twitter (@CanadaSoccerEN) for 2017 Canadian championship, 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup matches in Canada and USA•Assisting the Canada Soccer seniors men’s team operation staff with logistics tasks during the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup

Barbados

Contracted writer for the 2016 Tri-nations cricket tournament in Barbados between West Indies, Australia and South Africa for the Indian based website, Wisden India.

Trinidad And Tobago

Media officer for this Trinidad & Tobago professional football club, DIRECTV W Connection FC. Since the club’s establishment in 1999 it has gained a strong reputation in Caribbean, CONCACAF and larger world football. Duties:• Managing the clubs social media accounts on twitter and Facebook• Creating content whether written, audio or video for the clubs social media platforms and website• Interacting with local and international media on behalf of the club

Magazine writer for the 2013 Tri-nation series tournament booklet between Australia, Sri Lanka and West Indies, that was sold around Australia“Colin worked for Citrus Media as a freelancer writing a cricket programmethat was sold around Australia. His articles were delivered on time and werewritten to an excellent standard. It was an absolute pleasure to work with him."Richard RyanEditorial Director

Guyana, Caribbean & Central America

Media officer for the Guyana Football Federation during the 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier matches versus Mexico, Costa Rica and El Salvador

Guyana

Staff sport reporter on Cricket, football and athletics (track and field) for the Stabroek Newspaper that was established in 1986

Master Of Arts - Ma, International Sports Journalism

Dissertation: Sports Public Relations trends and challenges in the current Global Pandemic and Black Lives Matter Movement

Graduate Certificate, Sports Journalism