By Elizabeth Jensen Thirty-six programs will take home George Foster Peabody Awards in May, the program’s 69th year. The awards honor the best in electronic media for 2009 and are conferred by the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication…
By Jon Lafayette Holy cow, these are tough time for traditional sportscasters. But new technology and social media may be creating opportunities for people who want a career in sports journalism. Despite record ratings for big events like the Super…
By Jarre Fees Seeking to honor the best sports journalists in the nation, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association will induct football’s John Madden and baseball’s Peter Gammons into the NSSA Hall of Fame at its annual awards ceremony on…
Dave Goren, executive director of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association, was born in Taunton, Mass., and graduated from the SI Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. Goren did play-by-play for the Orangemen football and basketball teams along with…
By Jarre Fees Back in 1957, a Salisbury, N.C., restaurateur Pete DiMizio had the idea to honor regional sportscasters and sportswriters whom he had met at the Greensboro (N.C.) Open Golf Tournament. Following DiMizio’s untimely death in 1959, Dr. Edward…
As co-anchor of ESPN’s flagship edition of SportsCenter at 11 p.m., John Anderson is one of the nation’s most prominent sportscasters. He joined ESPN in 1999 after a long career in local broadcasting that began in Columbia, Mo., and included…
By Hillary Atkin Sportscaster Mary Carillo knows her way around a field, a gymnasium, an Olympic mountaintop — and most definitely, a tennis court. The versatile broadcaster played on the professional women’s tennis circuit from 1977-80, even winning the French…
By Jon Lafayette The sports world will be lining up against a new giant when Comcast’s $30 billion acquisition of NBC Universal finally pushes into the end zone. Like Walt Disney Co., which owns 80 percent of ESPN, a leader…