Jeffrey Mason

Email: abph15@r.postjobfree.com

Address: **** ****** ***** **.

City: Waldorf

State: MD

Zip: 20602

Country: USA

Phone: 301-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $40,000

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Jeffrey W. Mason

3017 Ashley Green Court, Waldorf, MD 20602-2523

301-***-****, Home Email: abph15@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Experienced sports writer/reporter/blogger with detailed knowledge of college and professional football and basketball, lacrosse, soccer, college baseball, Olympic sports, West Virginia University sports, Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins, Southern Maryland, and national/international athletic events. Excellent communication, computer, Internet, sports news database search (Lexis-Nexis, Factiva), and press relations skill sets. Extensive background in writing letters to sports editors, op-eds, blogs, interacting with sports information directors, and writing feature sports articles for the College Sports Publishers Association periodicals. Publications: USA Today, Blue & Gold News, Washington Examiner, Southern Maryland News and others

Experience

Senior Researcher/Writer-Editor/Media Rep./Librarian 1995 - 2003

Center for Defense Information (CDI), Washington, DC

[Nonprofit, military research organization founded by retired U.S. military officers]

* Wrote PBS-TV scripts for half-hour episodes of America`s Defense Monitor on nuclear weapons policy, defense nuclear waste, military psychology, and child soldiers (the latter won an award at the 1997 Houston International Film Festival).

* Responded to press, academic, and sportswriters research inquiries in the areas of military history, Naval Academy & West Point sports history, and other subjects

* Researched, co-wrote, and co-edited biennial fact book/CD-Rom CDI Military Almanac, published in 1995, 1997, 1999, and 2001.

* Press representative/facilitator for radio/TV interviews with CDI senior staff

Other Relevant Experience

* Sportswriter, 2002-12, Blue & Gold News (Editor: G. Hunter 304-***-****) [Wrote feature articles on West Virginia University classic football victories over Oklahoma, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Miami, and Boston College; regular contributor to Comments & Questions and http://westvirginia.scout.com]

* Assistant Editor, To The Point daily newsletter published by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, March 2003 [Worked as contract employee]

* Adjunct Faculty Instructor, 2001-12, College of So. Maryland, La Plata, MD

* Interviewed sports personalities such as Sam Huff, Phil & Joe Niekro, and WVU coach Gale Catlett, Redskins` Larry Michael, & WVU AD Oliver Luck

* Published author of free-lance military affairs, fiction, and sports articles including reviews of motion pictures such as Caddyshack and Dodgeball

* Author: -This Week in WVU Sports History,- Blue & Gold News, 2007-12

Education

MA, American History, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV

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