Professional Experience
Author of three books, including a New York Times' Editors' Choice selection. Have been published in the NY Times, NY Post, USA Today, Newsday, Sporting News, Hockey News and online. Sports history, sports business and sociology are my favorite topics.
Proficient in InDesign, Quark and Excel.
Have appeared as a sports authority on radio and TV, including CBS-TV, ESPN Radio, NPR, Westwood One, Black Entertainment Television, TV One and MSG.
Audio, video and writing samples available at www.CecilHarrisBooks.com.
Author of Charging the Net: A History of Blacks in Tennis from Althea Gibson and Arthur Ashe to the Williams Sisters; Call the Yankees My Daddy: Reflections on Baseball, Race, and Family; and Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey.
Former adjunct professor of sports marketing and management at Concordia College. At Urban Box Office Network, managed Web sites for tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams and former track star Marion Jones.
Total Media Industry Experience
20 Years
Media Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Newsday (10+), The Hockey News (10+), The Indianapolis Star (10+), The Sporting News (10+), Urban Box Office Network (10+), New York Post (10+), Raleigh News & Observer (10+), The (Brooklyn) City Sun (10+), Gannett Newspapers (10+), SportsPages.com (10+), Puerto Rico Sun.com (6-10)
Corporate Client List (# assignments last 2 yrs)
Major League Baseball (10+), New York Road Runners (10+)
Other Work History
Sports writer at daily newspapers, magazines, Web sites. Managing editor of sports Web sites. Adjunct professor of sports business. Copy Editor.
Unions
National Association of Black Journalists,
The Authors Guild.
Computer Skills
Proficient in InDesign, Quark Copy Desk, Excel, Microsoft Word, NrRas.
Equipment
Laptop computer, fax, audio recorder, digital camera (3.1 mega), telephone.
References
Ms. Gordon Bakoulis, communications director, New York Road Runners, 212-860-4455.
David Georgette, senior editor, Orlando Sentinel, 407-650-6375.
George Fosty, author and filmmaker, 516-735-7554.
Mike O'Connor, publisher, Insomniac Press, 416-504-6270.
Christopher Nagel, business department chair, Concordia College, 914-337-9300.
Awards
Society of the Silurians, Excellence in Sports Reporting.
Gannett Newspapers Mighty Pen Award.
Center for Editing Excellence Award, Saint Bonaventure University.
Sun God Award for Outstanding Sports Research from SONAHR (Society Of North American Hockey Researchers).
Associations
National Association of Black Journalists,
Academic honor societies of Phi Kappa Phi and Alpha Sigma Alpha.
The Authors Guild. Freelancers Union.
