John Lydic
Employment
Erie News Now, Erie PA -
Sports Anchor/Reporter (Oct. 2016 - Present)
Erie News Now, Erie PA -
Multimedia Jounralist (May 2016 - Sep. 2016)
Westmorland Sports Network - Greensburg, PA
Play-by-Play Announcer (Aug. 2014 - May 2016)
Sports Radio 93.7 The Fan - Pittsburgh, PA -
Radio Production Intern (May 2015 - Aug. 2015)
WMBS Radio - Uniontown, PA
News Anchor (Aug. 2014 - Mar. 2015)
Wheeling Nailers - Wheeling, WV
Gameday Intern (Oct. 2012 - Apr. 2013)
Freelancing
President’s Athletic Conference Sports Network
(Dec. 2014 - May 2016)
Greene County Messenger
(Oct. 2014 - May 2015)
MSA Sports Network
Broadcast (Oct. 31, 2014)
Education
Waynesburg University
Bachelor of Arts in Communication Degree: May 2016
Option in Sports Broadcasting/ Sports Information (3.83 GPA)
Minor in Business Management
Leadership
Bonner Scholar
Oversee and coordinate 15 volunteers to tutor and mentor 40 children in the local community for 140 plus hours. Completed over 1,850 hours of service.
Eagle Scout (Jan. 20, 2010)
Organized and directed 40 scouts in 30 community service projects. Coordinated 280 hours of work on a local church fellowship are for Eagle project.
Honors & Awards
Finalist, Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence Award for Best Newspaper
First Place Award Winner- Pennsylvania Society of New Editors
Lamda Pi Eta Communications Member
Skills
News/Sports Anchoring/ReportingErie News Now MMJ – Enterprise 12-15 local stories a week
- Shoot video for daily stories with Sony and Panasonic cameras
- Edit up to 16-20 stories a week for local broadcasts, within tight time limits and with exceptional transitions, creating strong story development to o er creative ways of understanding the community.
- Assist in assembling clear and accurate stories to broadcast to the local communities for thorough reports
- Delivered copy on camera in a professional and articulate manner that displays strong, in-depth storytelling
- Compose scripts and advise in pre-production and broadcast assignments on how to establish stronger presentation of sportscasts.
- Use ingenuity and resourcefulness to investigate, write and develop and deliver on-cam- era reports for assigned local and professional sporting events through extensive reports combing highlights and emotional enterprised stories.
- Present comprehensive sports reports in a compelling manner through creative and audience catching phrases describing sports action.
- Maintain relationships with local athletic directors and sports o cials to break stories.
- Perform entertaining and active live shots through incorporating complete interviews and analyses of games and stories.
- Regularly met with sports and management sta to advance sports coverage.
- Assembled 5 local news and sports stories, along with 10 state news stories.
- Collected local and national sports scores and lottery numbers.
- Composed all copy for news, sports and weather updates are self-produced.
WMBS & Westmoreland Sports Network – Conducted 40 spot interviews with local leaders, athletes, and coaches.
Radio Production – 112 total interviews to date93.7 The Fan – Logged 14 hours per week under the internship supervisor.
- Assisted in production of The Fan Morning Show, while updating online content.
- Gathered pregame and postgame audio clips by performing 64 interviews during Pirates games.
- Accumulated 48 interviews during Steelers and Pitt OTA’s.
Multimedia Production
Erie News Now – Published pertinent news and information to the public through social media and online presence to keep them up to date on current public a airs •Frequently updated station web content and disseminated information through social media, while building a following.
Sports Broadcasting – 85 total broadcasts to date
Westmoreland Sports Network – Announced weekly high school sporting events for all teams in Westmoreland County, PA. Main associate broadcaster for Quad-A Penn Tra ord football. Broadcast for 11 schools ranging from Quad-A to single A for high school basketball. (31 total broadcasts, 24 football, 7 basketball)
- Diligently prepared written copy for coach and player interviews for halftime show.
- Executed 8-10 interview with a coach and player for each broadcast. Produce single- camera commercial productions. (29 total broadcasts: 19 basketball broadcasts, 6 Interviews, 4 Games Produced.
All Broadcasts – Devoted 6-12 hours of prep time to each game broadcast; gather stats and rosters, contact coaches and develop hand-prepared spotter boards.