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Chicago, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

-Direct 365/24/7 live coverage based on the sports action of the week. Create a schedule that divides day-to-day responsibilities into shifts that are planned around events being held all over the world.-Manage a cross-continental project that involves sourcing, processing and resizing team and league logos as well as player headshots across multiple sports. Oversee the efforts of groups located in Chicago and India to ensure all rolling league deadlines are met and coordinate output with client expectations.-Collaborate with managers of STATS’ Research & Broadcast Services group to lend necessary resource support for round-the-clock services, including pre-game prep and live broadcast support.-Manage a team of editors to decide what content clients receive in an overall top stories headline package and sport-specific packages.-Monitor all content for factual or grammatical errors to improve content integrity.-Create original content such as contextualizing STATS’ next-gen data with an editorial complement, creating broadcast news briefs for radio stations across the country, breaking injury news with fantasy implications or producing stories for STATS’ nationally renowned FCS destination site.-Increase automation to maximize efficiency. Create the logic and wording to push out AI-powered player-performance notes and aggressively push the boundaries of automation across other editorial-based products.-Work closely with Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, Legal and third-party content partners to support and evolve STATS’ suite of offerings leveraging editorial and image assets.

Chicago, Il

-Named Deputy Manager to oversee work of 10 writers and eight editors, including three fellow Senior Editors. -In charge of one-off projects and year-end evaluations of individual staff members. -Edit and write stories for all major sports in the professional and college ranks. Copy appears on major websites. -Responsible for the content of 10 writers and eight editors. -Manage and direct efforts of all writers and editors. -Generate headline packages, outlining the day's top stories, and exercise news judgment to determine order of importance. -Communicate with and respond to client questions and concerns, such as providing additional copy, clarifying publication details and informing when stories would move on the national AP wire. -Work in a team environment to brainstorm and develop story ideas and content. -Perform fact checking for stories written and edited by self and others.

Chicago, Il

-Named one of three Senior Editors in a joint venture involving the MegaSports Department of The Associated Press and STATS, Inc. -Relocated to Chicago to aid in the integration of the two companies, especially in teaching new employees how to write stories and learn AP style. -Edited and wrote stories for all major sports in the professional and college ranks. Copy appeared on major websites. -Responsible for the content of 10 writers and five editors. -Managed and directed efforts of all writers and editors. -Generated headline packages, outlining the day's top stories, and exercised news judgment to determine order of importance. -Communicated with and responded to client questions and concerns, such as providing additional copy, clarifying publication details and informing when stories would move on the national AP wire. -Worked in a team environment to brainstorm and develop story ideas and content. -Performed fact checking for stories written and edited by self and others.

New York, Ny

-Promoted from position of Editorial Assistant Supervisor after passing The Associated Press' editing certification test on first attempt. -Edited and wrote stories for all major sports in the professional and college ranks. Copy appeared on major websites. -Responsible for the content of 10 writers. -Managed and directed efforts of all editorial assistants. -Created and developed opinionated columns on a wide variety of sports-related topics. Content appeared on Yahoo!, cbssportsline.com and other top websites. -Generated headline packages, outlining the day's top stories, and exercised news judgment to determine order of importance. -Communicated with and responded to client questions and concerns, such as providing additional copy, clarifying publication details and informing when stories would move on the national AP wire. -Worked in a team environment to brainstorm and develop story ideas and content. -Performed fact checking for stories written and edited by self and others.

New York, Ny

-Responsible for assigning daily tasks to a number of editorial assistants. -Wrote stories for all major sports in the professional and college ranks. Copy appeared on major websites. -Communicated with and responded to client questions and concerns, such as providing additional copy, clarifying publication details and informing when stories would move on the national AP wire. -Performed fact checking for stories written by self. -Monitored in-progress score updates and maintained expanded statistics, glances and rosters.

New York, Ny

-Was one of four people that helped develop a new department of The Associated Press, which grew to over 20 employees. -Performed same tasks as previous position but for internet clients instead of newspapers, television and radio members. -Wrote detailed previews for all major sports in the professional and college ranks. -Entered in-progress scores and maintained expanded statistics and glances.

New York, Ny

-Served as an assistant to editors in all the major sports, with emphasis on major league baseball. -Edited and created agate for the many members of our service. -Entered in-progress scores and helped maintain expanded statistics and glances.

B.S., Economics

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