Lance Lysowski Email & Phone Number

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Beat reporter covering the Pittsburgh Pirates and Major League Baseball for DKPittsburghSports.com.
• Coverage includes home and road games, in-depth features, behind-the-scenes reporting and analysis.
• On-camera and radio experience includes on-the-scene reporting and daily video segments to discuss Pittsburgh sports, as well as appearances on WPXI’s “The Final Word,” a sports roundtable talk show on Pittsburgh’s NBC.
• Publish content to the website and app using Word Press.
• Writing clean and concise copy with an attention to detail.
• Spent 16 months covering the University of Pittsburgh's football and basketball programs.

Washington, Pennsylvania

• Covering high school sports for a daily newspaper with a print circulation of33,863. Cover a total of 247 athletic programs in 22 districts across four counties, as well as University of Pittsburgh football, Division.
• Writing game stories that go beyond the numbers, in-depth features, enterprise stories and columns with an emphasis on multimedia. Shoot and upload video using an iPhone.
• Post content to the website using Saxotech by NEWSCYCLE Solutions. Also orchestrate major projects with multi-media elements, including the annual 65-page preseason football tabloid. Coordinate the paper’s coverage of.
• Write 10-12 stories per week and run a high school sports blog that goes behind the scenes in our coverage area. Maintaining a strong social media presence to engage with readers and attract viewers to the website.
• Plan the sports section, post to the department’s social media accounts and edit copy from reporters.

Akron, Ohio

Edit and publish stories from Ohio.com correspondents via Atex Content Manager, along with coordinating with Ohio.com freelancers to keep the websites updated with fresh content (stories, photo and multimedia) and adding content from third party sources. Continued to work as a correspondent covering Kent, Ohio. Coverage included community events, school.

Akron, Ohio

Responsible for keeping Ohio.com updated with fresh content (stories, photo and multimedia), select and order stories for display on the website, maintain home page and section fronts with latest news and write briefs, stories and features. Also working as a correspondent, covering the city of Kent for Ohio.com's MyCommunity's section.

Kent State University

Covering the city of Kent and Portage County for the school’s daily independent student newspaper. Coverage includes city council, courts, crime and education. Working with other print and broadcast reporters to create the best product with multimedia elements. Writing a series of stories on the abuse and increasing prevalence of heroin in the county.

Wrote feature stories for KentStateSports.com, updated the website’s content using Presto, data entry for Kent State’s sports record books and wrote game stories on deadline for the website.

Oversaw the production of the paper’s sports page three nights a week. Assigned stories to six reporters, and edited content with each one. Posted stories to KentWired.com.

Worked as the primary beat reporter for Kent State's women's soccer program Aug.-Nov. 2009, women's basketball from Nov. 2009 to Feb. 2010 and Kent State football from March 2010 to March 2011. Recipient of Lincoln Hackin Award for Excellence in Sports Writing for coverage of Kent State football, Fall 2010.

Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio

Covered high school hockey, high school baseball and little league baseball for community news websites in Mentor and Cuyahoga Falls.

Bachelor Of Science, News Journalism, 3.0

Education record