Mark Cooper Email & Phone Number

Somerville, Ma, Us

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Work as lead beat writer for both Oklahoma State football and men’s basketball, in charge of both reporting/writing stories and planning our overall coverage. Write profiles, features, enterprise stories and blogs to make OSUSportsExtra.com the go-to site for OSU coverage. Pitched, planned and launched authored email newsletter for OSU beat. Record and produce an OSU podcast. Utilize and experiment with multiple social media applications to promote stories, engage audiences and interact with readers. Spend time both in front of and behind the camera, producing iPhone videos while in the field and appearing on camera with coworkers to discuss Oklahoma State sports. File public records requests that are pertinent to the OSU beat.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Orange County, California Area

Syracuse, New York Area

Syracuse, Ny

Beat writer for the Syracuse University football team and men's basketball. Work 4-5 days per week editing all sports stories. Do first reads of stories with staff writers at side and give feedback. Plan schedule for sports section for semester and manage entire sports staff. Brainstorm and write or assign enterprise stories for the sports section. Work with and cultivate new writers. Help further The Daily Orange's web and social media presence by using Twitter frequently.

Syracuse, N.Y.

Beat writer for the Syracuse University football team and men's basketball. Work 4-5 days per week editing all sports stories. Do first reads of stories with staff writers at side and give feedback. Come up with headlines for stories and post stories online. Brainstorm and write enterprise stories for the sports section. Covered Syracuse women's basketball for the 2010-2011 season, and Syracuse softball during the 2010 season.

Syracuse, N.Y.

Worked 12-20 hours per week copy editing all sports stories. Entered cutlines on photos in Adobe InCopy. Wrote the weekly Big East football notebook during the 2010 season.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Syracuse, New York Area

Wrote posts periodically for The New York Times blog "The Quad," on the Syracuse men's basketball team.

Schenectady, N.Y.

Worked 35-40 hours per week in office at the sports desk. Wrote season previews for Tri-City ValleyCats and Amsterdam Mohawks. Covered a high school baseball state semifinal and a press conference for a coaching hire at Siena College. Took phone calls with game scores and entered them into Adobe InCopy in agate form. Entered golf scores and wrote weekly golf league roundup.

Wrote 3-4 stories per week. Covered Tri-City ValleyCats, New York Buzz, New York Giants training camp. Wrote numerous feature stories on all sports, ranging from softball, to marathon running, to karate.