2645 Railroad Street

CRAIG MEYER Apartment 335

Pittsburgh, PA 15222
Multi​-​Platform Sports Writer | craigmeyer19@gmail.com
@CraigMeyerPG (502) 724-9074

Experience Sports Reporter | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Pittsburgh, PA

□ Actively follow and report on the men’s basketball and football teams at the August 2012-Present
University of Pittsburgh while also reporting on larger stories within the
university’s athletic department and in college sports as a whole.
□ Provide readers with game stories, human-interest features, statistical
analysis, enterprise and investigative pieces, advances, narrative storytelling,
video breakdowns and podcasts, all while engaging with the newspaper’s
audience through social media, namely Twitter.
□ Previously covered West Virginia University football and Duquesne men’s
basketball (Feb. 2015-May 2016), as well as high school sports, Robert Morris
University athletics and arena football (Aug. 2012-Feb. 2015).
□ Regularly pitch and develop previously unexplored stories in the area, utilizing
in-depth interviews with coaches, players, administrators and various experts.
□ Engage with the local community through public speeches, workshops and
panel discussions.

Production Intern | WEEI.com Boston, MA

□ Curated and developed stories of both local and national importance for January – May 2012
online publication.
□ Wrote game analyses, features and interview summaries focusing on local
college and professional teams.
Pittsburgh, PA
Editorial Intern | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May – August 2011
□ Covered a variety of sports, often on deadline, including college football and
basketball, the NFL, MLB, arena football, MMA and high school sports.
□ Conducted interviews following the careful selection of local and national
sources for use in long-form features and trend pieces.
Boston, MA
Sports Writer | The Daily Free Press January 2009 – May
□ Drafted game previews and summaries, sidebars and features pertaining to
2012
Boston University men’s basketball and men’s soccer. Prepared a weekly sports
column focusing on relevant collegiate sports topics.
□ Served as the newspaper’s sports editor, managing a staff of undergraduate
journalists by recruiting and assigning writers to beats, laying out the sports
section, budgeting content and editing every story.

Awards & Keystone Press Awards 2019 -- First Place, Series, Division I
Golden Quill Awards 2019 -- Finalist, Excellence in Written Sports Journalism
Honors Robert L. Vann Media Awards 2016 -- Finalist, Newspaper Sports Features

Education Boston University College of Communication

Bachelor of Science, Journalism
Concentration in News/Editorial Journalism | Minor in History
Graduated Cum Laude in May 2012 | GPA 3.44