Welcome To The 2020 Roxbury Media Conference
Presenting This YEar
ROBERT DEFILLIPPO
George Muha |
Bob DeFillippo is a senior counselor with Zito Partners, a strategic marketing communications firm based in N.J., and teaches graduate courses in Strategic Communications, Crisis Communications, and Critical Business Skills for Corporate Communicators at NYU. In January 2019, he was elected Mayor of the Township Council in Roxbury, N.J.
Bob served as Chief Communications Officer for Prudential Financial, Inc. for more than 20 years, retiring in 2015. He also served as the Director of Public Affairs for AARP in Washington, D.C., and was press secretary to N.Y. Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr. Prior to that, he was a reporter and editor for newspapers in New York’s Hudson Valley. A frequent speaker at industry conferences, he has also served on the boards of several philanthropic and professional organizations, including the Page Society, Public Relations Society of America Foundation, the National Press Foundation, and WBGO Public Radio in Newark, N.J. George Muha is the founder and president of Morris Sussex Sports. Morris Sussex Sports is a 14-year old media company provides articles, special interest stories, podcast episodes, video highlights and live stream play-by-play broadcasts for 40 high schools in Morris, Sussex and parts of Warren Counties. Morris Sussex Sports reaches nearly 100,000 people a month and gets over 1,000,000 views a week on social media. George is most proud of his company culture which empowers and cultivates the natural abilities and talents of it's people, many of whom have continued their careers with national media companies like ESPN, CBS Sports, YES Network, SNY, Star Ledger and many more!
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B.J. Schecter |
B.J. Schecter is editor and publisher at Baseball America and a Sports Media professor at Seton Hall University, where he is starting an interdisciplinary Sports Media program. He has extensive experience at the highest levels of media, having spent 20 years as a reporter, writer and editor at Sports Illustrated before leaving the brand in September 2016. His responsibilities included running the magazine’s investigative and enterprise unit, managing content and columnists for the website, working closely with editors and writers at the website and magazine to integrate SI and SI.com, overseeing cross-platform projects and managing Sports Illustrated’s internship program. He was also the creator and editor of the college football website Campus Rush, which launched in the summer of 2015 and included a student correspondent program at more than 75 universities across the country.
As a writer, he covered college football and college basketball. As an editor, he edited college football, college basketball, Major League baseball and several special projects, including Crime in College Football, Gangs in Sports, the 50 Most Influential Minorities in Sports, the Great American Sports Atlas, the nation’s top high school programs and more. Prior to Sports Illustrated, Schecter spent five years at The Boston Globe, where he was the lead high school writer and also covered colleges. Before that he spent three years at the Middlesex News (now the MetroWest Daily News). In addition to writing essays, Schecter has severed as a guest lecturer and adjunct professor at Northeastern University, Fordham University, Southern Virginia University, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and several high schools. He is involved with several charitable organizations focusing on creating opportunities for and mentoring young people. Schecter graduated with honors from Northeastern University in 1996, where he severed as manager for the men’s basketball team for three years. |
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