Mike Dyer Email & Phone Number

Cincinnati, Ohio Area

With a coverage area of up to 150 Cincinnati-area high schools, I highlight student-athletes, coaches and athletic directors are highlighted through a digital platform on WCPO.com and offer insight and analysis on WCPO-TV.This includes longform stories, weekly features, breaking news, co-hosting a weekly high school sports podcast and aiding the TV sports.

-Reported on Southwest Ohio high school boys basketball on this nationally-recognized site based in Minnesota starting in November 2015. Create recruiting report, game summaries and evaluate talent from dozens of schools in Greater Cincinnati

Cincinnati

-Developed and cultivated hundreds of contacts through local, statewide and national efforts to highlight the Cincinnati-area college recruiting scene-Earned 856,000 page views and 343,000 uniques overall in 2015 on Cincinnati.com-Earned 207,000 page views and 101,000 uniques on the Recruiting Trail blog on Cincinnati.com-Consistently broke news and was.

Cincinnati, Ohio

-Named a top 10 high school sports reporter nationally by MaxPreps in June 2014-Created content on Cincinnati.com and The Enquirer that led to $166,097 of advertising revenue in the 2013-14 school year-Managed a part-time staff of six scoretakers at night, three college interns and a five freelance reporters-Effectively advised the sports channel.

-Developed a college recruiting brand which included winning the APSE (Associated Press Sports Editors) Second-Place Award in the Large Newspaper Division for a series on college football recruiting.-Coordinated photo assignments, maintain communications with our statistics vendor and have been instrumental in helping to plan comprehensive football and.

-Collaborated on a number of projects including being the direct assistant to the high school sports editor. -Coordinated photos and supervised a part-time staff nightly in taking scores and information used for print and online on a tight deadline basis.-Wrote a Father's Day feature on Ken Griffey Jr., and his family - a year after he reached 500 home.

Edited and proofread copy on the nightly desk including Reds, Bengals, UC, Xavier and high school sports. Worked on the annual college basketball section and did spot reporting.

Covered Akron-area high school sports with game stories, features and notes throughout the year. I consistently covered the Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary boys basketball team and football team including LeBron James. I learned from some of the best journalists in the country while James was in high school. I developed a friendship with Brian Windhorst (now at.

Wrote features and covered multiple West Akron high schools for all types of sports coverage. Covered LeBron James on the football field and on the basketball floor for three years at Akron St. Vincent-St. Mary. I interviewed James and his coaches during his high school days several times and broke the news of the team's national schedule his senior year.