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• Manage posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and TikTok accounts to drive engagement and increase follower base
• Optimize content relevance and timeliness for each story, crafting compelling social captions to maximize audience reach
• Collaborate with marketing team to develop social media strategies for exclusive specials to increase traffic to linear platforms
• Edit videos and photos using Adobe Premiere and Photoshop, enhancing storytelling and visual impact for social media posts
• Facilitate live streaming of press conferences and breaking news stories, keeping the audience in real-time
• Use CrowdTangle and Taboola to track analytics and evaluate content performance to build an effective social media calendar

New York, New York, United States

• Produced video segments, including highlight packages, two-way interviews, and features, achieving high engagement rates
• Generated ideas centered around NY sports and relevant national storylines for SNY and New York Post digital platforms
• Worked closely with on-camera talent to write conversational scripts, ensuring an engaging and informative segment
• Created visually appealing lower third and full-screen graphics to enhance the visual storytelling of segments
• Collaborated with control room members to coordinate graphics and video elements based on the rundown for video segments

• Provide sports betting game and props previews for multiple clients including Underdog Fantasy, USA Wager and BetUS
• Analyze point spreads, betting odds, advanced statistics and trends to formulate the best possible betting decisions
• Write columns for multiple clients including Basketball Articles and PlanetSport to cover the latest news around the NBA

• Analyze team and player performance using analytics and observations ranging from the stars to the role players
• Sit in as a media member representing the site at pre and postgame press conferences to ask players and coaches questions
• Use quotes from players and coaches to tell a story bigger than the action on the court and give readers a deeper perspective
• Give personal opinions by writing columns about all of the latest news and rumors surrounding the organization
• Monitor latest news and rumors around the NBA and write up quick reports to share on Twitter accounts

Secaucus, New Jersey

• Boosted league marketability through the creation of compelling video content, utilizing highlights and popular storylines
• Produced condensed versions of games, delivering concise narratives to engage viewers within a limited timeframe
• Operated NBA's continuous broadcast feed to distribute live game breaks to NBA League Pass and NBA App
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, ensuring accuracy and up-to-date information in admin resources and content pieces
• Contributed as a Production Assistant at Game 6 of the 2019 Toronto-Philadelphia Eastern Conference Semifinals series

• Covered the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in Boston, and the Big East tournament at Madison Square Garden
• Wrote game recaps and features including quotes from coaches and athletes to give the reader an inside look of each team playing

• Managed the NBA section by writing recaps of the games on www.pickinsplinters.com, a partner of USA Today Digital Properties
• Created a mock draft detailing where each player would be a good fit

Syracuse, New York

• Cut game highlights and sound bytes for packages and nightly newscasts across three different channels
• Interviewed local and collegiate athletes including the Syracuse Orange men’s and women’s basketball teams at the Carrier Dome
• Shadowed reporters who gathered footage on camera at local sporting events
• Wrote web stories for the CNY Central website as well as logged highlights of live games for sportscasts

Oswego, NY

• Hire 12 Sports Anchors a semester to do nightly sportscasts Sunday-Thursday
• Provide constructive feedback to Sports Anchors on a nightly basis
• Teach Sports Anchors how to write their scripts on Inception, and how to edit video using Premiere

Oswego, NY

• Cover local and professional sports at a student run station to entertain the college campus and local community
• Provide highlight reads to summarize player performance and update the audience on the action
• Produce my own sportscast using Inception to write my scripts and use Premiere to edit video gathered from CNN Newsource for highlights and vo/sots
• Shoot my own video to create packages that profiles local athletes or teams to tell a compelling story
• Discuss many teams on campus, including basketball, volleyball, baseball and hockey to establish an entertaining media environment for a variety of sports fans
• Summarize live sporting events before the game starts, at half-time and after the game to give the audience an understanding of the game

Oswego, NY

• Co-created the radio show "The Fastbreak" with three other students at a student run station to give a breakdown of the NBA
• Analyze current events in the NBA such as key matchups and predictions
• Operate the soundboard to keep the show functioning during air time

Bronx, NY

• Identified important highlights during local sporting events for the reporter to put on the sports segment
• Helped the reporter conduct interviews and shadowed reporters at sporting events ranging from high school to professional sports
• Assisted the sports department in coverage of Mark Teixeira and Alex Rodriguez’s retirement press conferences at Yankee Stadium
• Cut game highlights and sound bytes for the afternoon and nightly sportscasts and edited video for reporter and anchor packages
• Researched relevant sports news content to put on the sports segments

Rochester, New York Area

• Wrote recaps and previews for league’s scheduled games throughout the season
• Broke down the players/pitchers of the night and the week and applied enhanced baseball statistics to highlight their performance
• Used Microsoft Word to design daily press releases

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Broadcasting & Mass Communication Major, Business Administration Minor, Sports Studies Minor

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