Writers John Swenson
John is a veteran wire service reporter and New York Post columnist who began his sports writing career covering MLB, the NHL, NBA and NFL as well as horse racing and auto racing. He has written numerous articles for Rolling Stone, the Village Voice, New York Sports, Goal, Spur, Gambit Weekly and various other publications. In 1986 John joined the staff of United Press International and for the following 22 years he covered the NHL and horseracing's Triple Crown and Breeder's Cup. He also covered MLB for UPI, Reuters and the Associated Press. John went on to write a horseracing column Through the Binoculars and various other features for the New York Post. For several years, John also covered the New Orleans Fair Grounds horseracing meet for The Daily Racing Form. John's profile on jockey Steve Cauthen, Fall from Grace, Rise to Stardom in Spur magazine was nominated for an Eclipse Award. Keith Loria
Keith Loria has distinguished himself over the last 15 years by achieving top-level positions at some of the leading publications in the sports world. He served for the last decade as the Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the NHL magazine Rinkside and the NBA magazine Courtside. He has also held the title of Managing Editor for MetroSports.
Keith has represented his publications on numerous television and radio shows including the Fox morning Show Good Day New York, offering his opinions on a variety of sports subjects. In addition, his work can be regularly found on NHL.com and in baseball and football publications around the country. Mark Sosna
Mark Sosna has spent more than two decades in the sports media industry, working in radio, television, print media and public relations. After beginning his career at Associated Press, Mark went on to serve as a sports writer and editor for several weekly publications on Long Island, covering mainly high school and college athletics. Mark was founding Editor-in-Chief of New York Sportscene magazine, establishing strong working relationships with professional sports teams and organizations.
Mark has held the position of Sports Information Director at both SUNY Old Westbury and Dowling College. In addition, he served as Media Relations Director for the Long Island Region of the Empire States games for nine years.
For the past 13 years, Mark has worked as a statistician for the NFL on Fox, as well as the lead statistician for the BCS National Championship Game for the last three years. Mark was part of the Emmy-Award winning Fox broadcast of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. Kelly M. Coventry, M.A.
Kelly Coventry brings over 20 years of experience in the health and fitness field to New York Sportsbeat. She has been published on numerous occasions in National Magazines such as Shape, Prevention, American Health and other notables. Kelly has also appeared several times on the CBS Evening News as an exercise specialist as well as NBC's Weekend Today-New York. She was also a fitness consultant to American Health Magazine.
Kelly holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Education from the State University of New York at Cortland and a Masters of Art degree in Exercise Physiology from Adelphi University. She has also had affiliations with the American College of Sports Medicine as an exercise test technologist as well as with the YMCA as a Fitness Specialist and AIS as a Stretch Specialist. Joe Pietaro
Joe Pietaro brings years of experience and professionalism to New York Sportsbeat. Joe is the Founding Editor of MuscleSports Magazine. He has had numerous articles published in the New Jersey Daily Record, The Canarsie Courier, Mets Inside Pitch, Gotham Baseball and Breakaway! Monthly. Joe is also a sports regular columnist for The Montauk Sun and is a staff writer for New York Sports Day and Pro Bodybuilding.com.
He has been contributed to a number of teams and leagues including the USBL, IBL, NAFL and WPFL. Joe is the former Director of Media Relations of the Strong Island Sound of the ABA and was a weekly sports commentator on Sirius Satellite radio. Rich Mancuso
Rich, an award winning journalist with a wealth of knowledge and years of experience, joins the staff at New York Sportsbeat. He is currently a feature writer for the New York Daily News covering professional, college and high school sports throughout the N.Y. Metro area and is also currently working for the Associated Press as an update reporter.
Rich is also a writer for Boxing Digest and sports correspondent for Gannett newspaper chain. He also works closely with the Latino community writing for LatinoSports.com. He can also be heard over the air waves on WFAN and SportsChannel New York.
Rich began his career as a Public Relations Representative on the Los Angeles Organizing Olymipic Committee for the 1984 Summer Olympiad.
Jessica Haimowitz
Jessica brings years of writing and editing experience to New York Sportsbeat, and will have the primary responsibility of working in the special project department covering sports related charity events and the athletes, coaches, teams and organizations involved. James Cerny
James joins the staff at New York Sportsbeat, bringing along a celebrated career in various areas of the sports industry.
Over the years, James has worked in radio, broadcasting games on the ABC Radio Network and on WMCA-AM. He also worked behind the microphone for NHL Live, the New York Islanders, Montreal Expos, New Jersey Jackals and the Newark Bears. He also held the positions of Director of Media Relations for the New Jersey Jackals and Assistant General Manager and Director of Baseball Operations for the Newark Bears.
James is a former staff writer for the New York Times and currently writes for MSG Interactive as a Beat Writer for the New York Rangers official web site. He also currently publishes work at The Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Washington Times, Hockey Illustrated and The Fourth Period. Joe McDonald
Joe McDonald is currently the Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of NY Sports Day and Assistant Editor of Mets Inside Pitch Magazine. He is also a regular contributor to Blueshirt Bulletin Magazine.
His work has also been published in the NY Daily News, MLB.com, SportsFan Magazine, Hudson Valley Renegades Official Site and the Albany River Rats official site. Joe is also a member of the New York chapter of the Professional Hockey Writers Association.
Joe has appeared on a number of episodes of SNY's Mets Weekly program during the baseball season, while also appearing on From Bums to Cyclones, a video produced by the Brooklyn Cyclones.
Anna Comstock
Anna joins New York Sportsbeat following a career in television and radio. She began her career working for the Twenty Twenty Television Production Company in London, England. Anna then went on to work for KBIA Radio in Missouri as a reporter, writer and editor. Following radio, she moved on as an editor, reporter and cut-in anchor on KOMU-TV an NBC affiliate in Missouri. Andrew McClure
Andrew McClure has worked almost 10 years in the sports media industry, writing for the Herald Community Newspapers, published by Richner Communications. His field of expertise is in the coverage of high school and college sports throughout the New York area. Andrew currently covers many of the charity walks, runs and human interest stories throughout Long Island and the boroughs.
Michele D'Altorio
Michele began her career in the public relations field. She then took her strong writing and editing skills to television, working as a producer at News 12 on Long Island. Following News 12, she continued her career at Square One Publishers where she is the Special Projects Editor. Michele will cover college and high school sports as well as special events. Jeff Bernstein
Jeff Bernstein has worked in the sports media industry for over 25 years, beginning as Sports Information Director at Hunter College, while also serving as Director of Media Relations for the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC). He then moved on to hold the position of Director of Sports Information at Manhattan College, which included serving as the executive producer for the college's radio, television and internet basketball broadcasts. He also conducted the broadcast's halftime interviews.
Jeff has written for numerous publications, including New York Newsday as a softball columnist and for Associated Press covering both the NY Knicks and local college basketball. Jeff was the recipient of the "Mike Cohen Good Guy Award" in 2003 from the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association and is a member of the United States Basketball Writers Association. Anthony Stoeckert
Anthony Stoeckert is a former editor of the NBA magazine Courtside. He has also been a regular contributor to Basketball Digest and Hockey Digest as well as covering sports for Scholastic Online. During his career, Anthony has interviewed sports legends such as Walt Frazier, Pat Riley, David Cone, George Gervin, NBA Commishioner David Stern and others. He has also worked the sports desk at New York Newsday and currently works as an editor and writer for Princeton Packet newspaper group.
Mark Berner
Mark began his career in 1982 with the Daily News as a freelance handicapper. He then continued his award-winning writing at Newsday for the next 22 years. Mark has written feature stories for the Thoroughbred Times, Horseplayer Magazine and Racing Action. Mark will not only serve as horse racing expert at new York Sportsbeat, but will also add his writing expertise in covering professional and college sports. Linda Knox
Linda brings a wealth of sports knowledge to New York Sportsbeat, following a stint at WABC TV where she worked editing sports highlights and enhanced on-site production for nightly news broadcasts.
She moved on to become Lead Editor of The Fischler Report, a weekly hockey newsletter with an elite clientele, including NHL executives and general managers. Linda is also involved in the pre & post game production as well as intermission reports for the New York Islanders.
Linda is also co-editing a book authored by Stan Fischler on hockey post 1974. |
