Media Relations Manager
George Mason University
Total years of experience :32 years, 0 Months
Contribute proven public relations, writing and media skills to the state of Virginia’s largest public research university. Served as a key component in the school’s overall Strategic Communications plan by serving as a spokesman and ambassador of sorts for the entire university. Duties also included helping to devise overall university media strategy, authoring official university press releases, working with interested media on a daily basis and pitching stories to various local and national media outlets.
Contribute proven writing skills to various publications in the metro Atlanta area and national ones as well while writing two books. Covered the 2013 men’s college basketball Final Four in Atlanta. Regularly helped cover the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons for “Core 360 Sports” and SEC football for the website “Saturday Down South” as of August 2015. Also wrote on occasion for other media outlets such as Sporting News and CBSSports.com.
Contribute proven writing and media skills to the state of Virginia’s largest public university. Served as a key component in the school’s overall Strategic Communications plan by serving as a spokesman for the entire university. Duties also included authoring official university press releases, working with interested media on a daily basis, pitching stories to various local and national media outlets and further promoting the university by writing stories for the main university website. Also oversaw daily internal university communications.
Contribute proven writing and media skills to the state of Virginia’s largest public university. Served as a key component in the school’s overall Strategic Communications plan by serving as a spokesman for the entire university. Duties also included authoring official university press releases, working with interested media on a daily basis, pitching stories to various local and national media outlets and further promoting the university by writing stories for the main university website.
Contributed proven writing, interviewing and editing skills to the U.S. Marine Corps Public Affairs Office at Marine Corps Base Quantico, located just outside Washington, D.C. Duties included writing daily stories for the base newspaper and website that promote the U.S. Marine Corps and consistent interaction with base senior leadership and key civilian officials about a variety of topics. Other responsibilities included direct public relations work for the U.S. Marine Corps.
Apply dynamic writing talents toward providing key correspondence activities for a premiere national magazine to include covering breaking political, sports, economic, and social news while maintaining superior journalistic integrity.
• Demonstrate extensive local area expertise toward covering newsworthy metro Atlanta-based events in coordination with set individual- and team-driven deadlines and supportive of comprehensive organizational standards.
• Author and edit diverse prep / professional sports articles to include providing targeted information concerning Atlanta Hawks, Atlanta Falcons, and Georgia Tech football and men’s basketball events.
• Served as Metro news reporter from 2007-2009, covering local, state and national politics and metropolitan Atlanta news.
Contributed primary writing efforts for the University of Florida’s men’s basketball team to include providing relevant daily coverage and insightful feature articles.
•Traveled with the team to various collegiate venues and proficiently covered additional sports (i.e. football) as necessary.
Strategically steered the research and preparation of copy for a start-up CNN-based Sports Illustrated sports show to include liaising among high-profile anchors and producers which ensured seamless nationwide daily sports coverage.
Contributed primary writing, interviewing and editing skills towards daily coverage of high school, college and professional sports. Served as the newspaper’s beat writer covering the NFL’s Washington Redskins and also covered Super Bowl XXX in Arizona and the 1996 Atlanta Summer Olympic Games.
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