JORDANHORROBIN [email protected] EXPERIENCE 740.249.7876 Sportsnet, Forbes.com, MLB.com / TORONTO, ONTARIO Freelance Writer/Editor, Sept. 2019 — present @JordanHorrobin - Selects photos, writes headlines, edits and publishes content to sportsnet.ca and JordanHorrobin.com social media; monitors consumer traffic on sportsnet.ca to appropriately slot content - Covering MLB road teams at Rogers Centre for MLB.com, writing financial and/or analytical stories on Blue Jays and Leafs for Forbes, plus short features for Sportsnet Timmins Daily Press (Postmedia) / TIMMINS, ONTARIO News Reporter, April 2019 — August 2019 - Hunted for story ideas, conducted interviews and research, shot photos, wrote and edited stories for a website and five editions/week print newspaper - Balanced as many as eight stories at a time, with up to four bylines per day - Covered topics such as cannabis legislation, minor hockey disputes and city council - At times tasked with assigning stories and overseeing all content for print edition Detroit Free Press, TheScore, MLB.com, SB Nation, etc. / WINDSOR, ONTARIO Freelance Writer, October 2018 — April 2019 - Pitched/wrote/edited unique stories, including game stories, features and analysis, using original reporting and research - Provided game coverage for Major League Baseball, Division I college hockey and basketball events in Michigan The Athletic / DETROIT, MICHIGAN Editorial Intern, May 2018 — September 2018 - Covered sports in the Detroit area, with a primary focus on the Detroit Tigers - Wrote game features, day-after analysis, long features and commentaries that gave a unique perspective to the day-to-day news surrounding the Tigers - Tasked with editing stories for the website and promoting them on social media with engaging teaser descriptions MLB.com / DETROIT, MICHIGAN Detroit Tigers Reporter (intern), April 2017 — August 2017 REFERENCES - Covered the Tigers and occasional road teams; duties comparable to MLB.com’s full- time writers, with up to six daily bylines (stories weren’t subject to approval of MLB or its Craig Custance clubs) Editor-in-chief, The Athletic Detroit - Developed unique story ideas for sidebars, while handling previews, news and game 404.408.4358 story coverage [email protected] - Became well-versed in research tools on Statcast, Baseball-Reference, Fangraphs, etc.
Jim Banks The Post / ATHENS, OHIO Executive editor, MLB.com Staff Writer, September 2014 — May 2018 440.796.5366 - Covered Ohio football, basketball, hockey and baseball for the independently-run [email protected] student newspaper of Ohio University - Wrote two or more news stories a week, plus features and contributions to student Ron Grech radio/podcasts City editor, Timmins Daily Press - Created iPhone videos, met game story deadlines, worked with SIDs for sources/ interviews, spent two years on the newspaper's copy desk (editing news and sports) 705.288.3944 [email protected] EDUCATION E.W. SCRIPPS SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM Jason Beck Ohio University — Bachelor of Science in Journalism Detroit Tigers beat reporter, MLB.com News and Information Track 248.259.6407 Graduation: May 2018 [email protected] SKILLS
Photography (with a DSLR camera), Wordpress, Final Cut 10, iMovie, Microsoft Office, Social Media, AP Style, CP Style, Adobe InDesign and Adobe Photoshop.