Press-Telegram adds sports reporter John W. Davis to coverage team

John W. Davis has joined the Press-Telegram newsroom, covering Long Beach sports full-time.

Davis has 13-plus years of reporting experience, moving arsenic a reporter, podcaster, video journalist, and integer producer. He has a Master’s grade successful broadcast journalism from Syracuse University and a Bachelor’s grade from Central Michigan University.

John has astir precocious worked arsenic a bushed reporter/podcast big covering the WNBA and the LA Sparks with Winsidr.com for the past 3 years. At the aforesaid time, helium has besides covered Inglewood for the Los Angeles Wave newspapers, and South L.A. for Our Weekly arsenic a integer shaper progressive with some reporting and managing the newsletter, Facebook and Twitter channels.

Before moving to Los Angeles, John worked arsenic a multimedia writer and quality newsman astatine Spectrum News 13, a 24/7 determination cablegram transmission successful Orlando, Florida. That relation included shooting video, writing, and editing, and producing regular quality reports. His sum included reporting connected the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, the Trayvon Martin shooting / George Zimmerman trial, and respective hurricanes. He besides worked on-air arsenic a newsman successful Fort Wayne, Indiana, and down the scenes arsenic an Associate Producer successful Detroit, Michigan.

John besides is teaching a people astatine USC’s Annenberg School for Journalism successful engaging divers communities. He is simply a lifelong instrumentality of Olympic sports and grew up arsenic a instrumentality of Detroit’s Bad Boys Pistons teams.

His email code is jdavis@scng.com and you tin travel him connected Twitter @johnwdavis.