Young, enthusiastic, award-winning sports journalist who hopes to use his multimedia experiences to continue to transform sports journalism throughout the 21st century.
Willing and able to take on challenging tasks and can move anywhere.
EDUCATION
Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, September 2003 - June 2007
~Bachelor of Science degree in Journalism with concentrations in History and Sociology. Graduated with Honors.
The Lovett School, Atlanta, GA, September 1996 - May 2003
~Graduated with Honors.
WORK EXPERIENCE
~The Telegraph (macon.com), Macon, GA, July 2007 - Present Sports Reporter Description: Currently working as a sports reporter for The Telegraph, a 55,000 daily- circulating paper that covers Middle Georgia and the Southeast. Also work for the paper’s website, macon.com.
Duties include: Covering the paper's Georgia Tech beat, focusing on football and men’s basketball. I write features, notebooks, game stories, and coordinate a blog, video blogs, a Twitter account (@macontechtalk) and a Facebook fan page (Coley Harvey – MaconTechTalk). Georgia Tech’s 2009 football team won an ACC championship and participated in a BCS bowl. The men’s basketball team made it to the second round of the NCAA tournament.
Duties include: Appearing weekly on local radio stations FOXSports 1670 AM “The Bill Shanks Show” (Macon), and The Mix 100.9 FM (Macon) as a Georgia Tech analyst. Was also an analyst for KXNO 1460 AM (Des Moines, Iowa) before Georgia Tech’s Orange Bowl game with the Iowa Hawkeyes. Also occasionally appear online as a guest analyst for MTM Atlanta Sports Talk Radio (http://mtmradio.libsyn.com)
Duties include: Writing weekly columns on topics ranging from local sports to professional state athletics to national/international sports topics.
Duties include: Assisting the high school sports editor with area prep sports coverage. I write features, notebooks and game stories, and have appeared with the high school editor on "The Prep Zone," a once weekly broadcast show that aired on the paper's macon.com website.
Duties include: Writing local sports takeout features. They have ranged from an area Olympian gold medalist skeet shooter to pioneering Minor League baseball players.
Other beats have included: The Macon Music (Minor League baseball), the Georgia Gwizzlies (Minor League basketball) and local high school baseball.
~ACC Sports Journal, Sept. 2008 – PresentGeorgia Tech Freelance Insider Description: Currently work as a freelance writer for the ACC Sports Journal, a monthly magazine that covers the Atlantic Coast Conference and its teams.
Duties include: Writing stories every few weeks that focus on various aspects of Georgia Tech football or basketball.
~MLB.com, San Francisco, CA, June 2006 - Sept. 2006 Associate Reporter
Description: Worked as an intern for the San Francisco Giants’ Web site, sfgiants.com.
Duties included: Filing game stories, previews, notebooks, and features.
~The Telegraph, Macon, GA, Sept. 2005 - Dec. 2005 Staff/SportsReporterDescription: Worked as an intern for The Telegraph.
Duties included: Strengthening sports reporting skills by working on the sports desk covering local college basketball, high school football, and local college football.
Duties included: Broadening overall reporting skills by working as a staff reporter covering hard news in Middle Georgia such as elections, police blotters, and other local news stories.
~MLB.com, Atlanta, GA, June 2005 - Sept. 2005 Associate Reporter
Description: Worked as an intern for the Atlanta Braves’ Web site, atlantabraves.com.
Duties included: Filing game stories, previews, notebooks and features.
~The Daily Northwestern, Evanston, IL Sept. 2004 - June 2005Sports Reporter
Description: Worked as a beat reporter for the sports section of Northwestern University’s major student-run newspaper.
Duties included: Consistently filing deadline game stories and writing features.
Duties included: Covering the men’s and women’s swimming and diving beats as well as tennis.
Duties included: Covering a National championship-contending Big Ten women’s softball team.
~The Lion, Atlanta, GA Sept. 2001 - May 2003Sports Reporter/Editor
Description: Worked as a features and sports reporter for The Lion, the student- run newspaper for The Lovett School.
English. Can read some Spanish; some conversational Spanish.
AWARDS RECEIVED
~2010: Associated Press Sports Editors’ fourth-place finisher for “Game Story (40,000-100,000 circulation)” – recognized for deadline story following Georgia Tech’s 39-34 win in the 2009 ACC football championship.
Georgia Sports Writer’s Association’s second-place winner for “Best Feature – Non-Deadline” – recognized for feature story on Ernest Johnson and Samuel Drake, the first African Americans to play for Macon’s minor league baseball team, the Peaches, in 1955.
Georgia Sports Writer’s Association’s third-place winner for “Best College Event Story on Deadline” – recognized for deadline story following Georgia Tech’s 39-34 win in the 2009 ACC football championship.
~2009: Georgia Sports Writer’s Association’s first-place winner for “Best Pro Event Story on Deadline” – recognized for deadline story on the drafting of former Georgia Tech punter Durant Brooks.
Georgia Sports Writer’s Association’s first-place winner for “Best College Event Story on Deadline” – recognized for deadline story written when Georgia Tech running back Jonathan Dwyer was named ACC Player of the Year, 2008.
Georgia Sports Writer’s Association’s second-place finalist for “Best College Event Story on Deadline.”
The Telegraph’s August winner for Non-deadline feature – recognized for feature about Georgia Tech’s famed Ramblin’ Wreck and the Middle Georgia native who was the car’s latest driver.
~2008: Georgia Sports Writer’s Association’s finalist for Best High School Event Story on Deadline - recognized for game story written during prep state football semifinals at Georgia Dome, Dec. 2007.
Workshop Participant in the Poynter Institute's Sports Journalism Summit III, April 2008.
The Telegraph's July winner for Feature story - recognized for feature on area Olympian (and eventual skeet shooting gold medalist) Vincent Hancock.
~2007: The Telegraph's December winner for Feature story - recognized for feature "Faith is a Horseshoe," published 12.30.07.
The Telegraph's December winner for Best Online Effort - recognized for work blogging, writing and broadcasting Web episodes of "The Red Zone" football show during the high school semifinals.
Northwestern University’s "Greek Man of the Year" – recognized as the man in Northwestern’s entire Greek Community who best exemplified leadership, Greek spirit and a commitment to strengthening the Northwestern community for the 2006-2007 school year.
~2006: Inducted member of the official Senior Honor Society at Northwestern University.
EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES/MEMBERSHIPS
Football Writers Association of America, May 2010 – PresentMember.
National Association of Black Journalists, Jan. 2010 – PresentMember.
Georgia Sports Writer’s Association, July 2007 – PresentMember.
