Patrick Engel Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Associate editor of Modern Steel Construction, the monthly magazine of the American Institute of Steel Construction
• Help determine and secure stories on steel industry projects, trends and people for each magazine edition
• Collaborate with contributing writers while editing for content, clarity and grammar
• Write magazine headlines and help gather and assign photos for each story

South Bend, Indiana, United States

• Covered Notre Dame football and men's basketball, which included a football coaching search, the 2020 College Football Playoff, a win over a No. 1-ranked team and the hurdles of playing college sports in a global.
• Produced daily written content for BlueandGold.com, a subscription-model site affiliated with the On3.com network
• Served as the editor and wrote 5-10 stories for Blue & Gold Illustrated magazine, the largest magazine devoted to a single sports team in the U.S. We publish 24 issues per year
• Elevated to editor of the magazine in August 2021. I helped determine content and delegated assignments
• Strictly adhered to best SEO practices in copy and in headline writing
• Monitored traffic metrics daily to help inform content decisions

Mattoon, Ill.

• Covered Eastern Illinois University football and basketball
• Covered Mattoon High School and Charleston High School athletics
• Wrote game stories, features and profiles on EIU and local high school athletes
• Long-term and special projects included an oral history of Tony Romo's college days at EIU, a profile on a 16-year-old local professional dirt bike racer and embedding in game prep with the EIU football staff.

Greater Chicago Area

• Covered Loyola University Chicago men’s and women’s basketball
• Covered 10 total games, also attended women’s team practice weekly to watch and conduct interviews
• Wrote about 40 total game stories, advances, columns, breaking news and features
• Covered on-campus welcome back ceremonies during men’s NCAA Tournament run
• Covered Chicago State men’s basketball March 3 victory that ended a 40-game Division I losing streak
• Covered 2018 NBA All-Star Week in Los Angeles and wrote 3 enterprise stories from it

Dallas, TX

• Covered the SMU men’s basketball team, football team and recruiting
• Broke two commitments and one transfer to SMU
• Broke the hire of an assistant basketball coach who is also the father of a highly touted recruit
• Turned more than 60 stories within an hour of the game’s ending
• Wrote more than 250 recruiting stories on SMU football and basketball recruits
• Moderated subscriber forums, provide exclusive team and recruiting content on forums

Dallas, TX

• Assisted in delegating story assignments to a staff of 3 writers and contributors
• Covered SMU football and men’s basketball games and wrote 1-2 columns or game stories per week
• Covered 2 NCAA tournaments and one AAC tournament
• Spent 4 semesters as a sports staff writer, responsible for 2-3 game recaps, previews and aggregate stories per week
• Won 2nd Place for a sports column and Honorable Mention for a sports feature story at the 2016 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association conference, which is composed of more than 70 4-year and 2-year colleges in Texas

Dallas, TX

• Student-produced weekly television show about SMU sports teams
• Organize and give assignments to a crew of 6-8 students
• Produced all but 2 of the weekly shows since starting as Co-Executive Producer in September 2015
• Work on all crew positions, including audio, technical director, director, producer, video server and anchor
• Promoted to co-executive producer after 3 semesters as a crew member

Dallas, TX

• Produced web content and stories for KDFW-TV FOX4's website, fox4news.com
• Worked in the newsroom 6 hours per day, 4 days per week for 9-week internshipWrote or aggregated 8-10 stories per day, mostly on breaking news, local news, crime and sports
• Covered a Dallas Donald Trump rally, ambush shooting of Dallas police officers and severe weather damage from the newsroom
• Used AVID Newscutter and Photoshop to find and create photos and slideshows for stories

• Rush The Court is an independent college basketball blog with a national site and eight microsites. It has more than 16,000 followers on Twitter
• Wrote 2 posts per week analyzing Big Ten Conference basketball teams, games, players and statistical trends for the Big Ten section of the site

Beloit, WI

• Operated, monitored and calibrated a computer program (PITCHf/x) that tracked the velocity, movement, release point, spin, and pitch location for every pitch during a game
• Logged the result of every pitch
• Operated the machine at Beloit Snappers Minor League Baseball games
• Worked 23 games during the 2014 season

Evanston, IL

• The Evanston RoundTable is a bi-weekly newspaper covering community news in Evanston, Illinois. The paper is distributed to 15,000 homes and an additional 3,000 papers are bulk-dropped to more than 50 convenient.
• Worked as an intern news writer for 10 weeks
• Copy edited roughly 10 stories and press releases per week
• Reported on and wrote about 10 local stories and enterprise stories, including recurring gas leaks in Evanston and a theater company’s unpaid rent
• Covered 1 Evanston City Council meeting
• Wrote 1 front-page story

Master Of Science, Journalism, Graduate

Pursuing a master's degree in journalism with a sports media specialization from Northwestern University. Expected to graduate in August.

Bachelor’S Degree, Journalism, Sports Management, Junior

High School