Mark Puleo Email & Phone Number

State College, Pa, Us

Cover the biggest news stories in sports with speed and accuracy, while also communicating and collaborating with our entire newsroom to use strong news judgement skills in determining what our biggest focuses are. I have a strong sense of the day's biggest stories and enjoy using analytics, trending tools and social media to keep track of what the sports world is interested in, while also using investigative skills to uncover deeper stories involving police records, lawsuits, organizational documents and statements.I specialize in writing trending stories and using a conversationally informative writing voice to make articles feel unique and to the high-quality standard of our Athletic and New York Times audiences.

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Collaborated with managing editor and executive editor to help program homepage, while also overseeing the content placement on vertical pages. Worked with digital team leaders to help determine which writers would be best to handle which stories in order to maximize their writing voices and lean into their strengths.

State College, Pennsylvania

Write daily articles for AccuWeather.com covering breaking weather news, feature stories and recap stories about weather events. I also help post and schedule social media posts, cultivate story ideas and start the daily news cycle as the first journalist on shift.I helped contribute to and run live blogs during big weather events. I specialized in writing deep-dive stories on trending topics, explainers and historical oddities, writing multiple articles that topped over 1 million page views.

State College, Pennsylvania, United States

Assisted head coach in organizing and executing daily practices, workouts and race preparations for team of 60+ participants. Traveled with team to meets and helped arrange team events.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Crafted job descriptions for positions we were filled, posted open roles on social media accounts and performed data entry duties for applicant information. I was the first line of communication for new applicants, follow-up appointments and our application process, performing customer service and a wide variety of administrative duties.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Worked with Campus Recreation in Student Affairs, managed social media accounts, assisted in New Student Orientation outreach events, helped update information on the Student Affairs website, wrote press releases, did graphic design work using Adobe Illustrator, edited videos using Adobe Premier.

State College, Pennsylvania Area

Sports reporter covering field hockey, rugby, volleyball and basketball while working on the Digital Team, helping put stories on the website and format the articles for the web.

Covered Penn State Football, attended games and media availabilities to write weekly article.

Reporter covering the Altoona Curve, a minor league affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Attended nearly every home game and covered road games via radio broadcast. Wrote game recaps and feature stories about team throughout season.

Covered a number of different events such as Penn State's THON and speakers visiting Penn State while also doing freelance reporting for a number of high school sports such as football, soccer and basketball.

Covered Penn State Football, attended home games and media availabilities, wrote analysis pieces for each game.

Built webpage content for many business clients, helped build websites using WordPress and optimize sites for SEO. Learned how to utilize Google Ads and social media management for audience attraction.