Daniel Scifo Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Works with DICK’S Sporting Goods as a client, prioritizing projects and demonstrating flexibility to meet strict deadlines for the largest sporting goods retailer in the country.• Each month, examines all copy, photos, video and website links for about 500 emails, 85 complex, multi-faceted social media projects and hundreds of text and push notifications involving premier brands like Nike, adidas, Under Armour and more.• Completed work has been featured in Olympic commercials, NFL prime-time broadcasts and throughout the streets, buses and subways of Boston during a House of Sport takeover.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Worldwide coverage of the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pittsburgh Penguins – more than 100 stories written in the previous two years. Interviews athletes, recaps games and develops quality features under tight deadlines.• Provided sidebars on a half-hour deadline for The Associated Press during Games 1, 2 and 5 of the 2016 and ’17 Stanley Cup Final involving the Pittsburgh Penguins, San Jose Sharks and Nashville Predators.• Produced multiple stories per day, including daily news coverage, practice reports, in-depth pieces and instant breaking news that went worldwide like Ben Roethlisberger’s retirement.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Weekly features on players who have strong involvement and experience playing for Team USA, including current National Hockey League stars and the Olympic gold medal-winning U.S. women’s hockey team among others.

Latrobe, Pennsylvania, United States

--- Sports editor who published five editions weekly. Managed team of staff reporters, multiple freelance writers and photographers. Scheduled events for staff writers and photographers daily. Ensured paper was laid out on InDesign and photos formatted on Adobe Photoshop.--- Deep newspaper journalism proficiency with daily proofreading and superior editing experience. Offers frequent feedback to young writers and improves pieces through world-class revisions and corrections.--- Flexibility to creatively and thoroughly detail complex non-sports angles with clarity, precision and accuracy, including multi-million dollar construction projects, budgetary breakdowns, contract negotiations and more.---Provided comprehensive local athletic coverage, including exceptional in-depth features and game recaps in all sports for multiple local high schools and colleges.---Covered the Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowls XLIII and XLV in Tampa, Fla. and Dallas, Texas, respectively and the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Final on three separate occasions.-- Provided coverage of the Pittsburgh Penguins and Pittsburgh Steelers every year since 2007. This includes all home playoff games, Games 5 and 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Final in Detroit, two NHL outdoor showcases, the NFL Draft, rookie minicamp, organized team activities, mandatory minicamp, training camp at St. Vincent College and Acrisure Stadium, in-season locker room availabilities, practices and press conferences, prime-time contests and select road games within driving distance.