Many college students face extenuating circumstances others may never even think about or be aware of. As a person who stutters and recent graduate of Western Carolina University, Javan Braswell understands what that can feel like. “The first days of class you have to go around the room and tell…

Disclaimer: This is a fictional web story I wrote as part of my final project in my Writing for Mass Communications course during the Spring 2018 semester of my first year at the University of South Carolina. For this creative writing assignment, I thought it was a no-brainer to focus…

Please note: I originally wrote this on November 1, 2021, for an assignment during a sports public relations graduate course at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Since The Athletic published the investigative report co-written by Ken Rosenthal and Evan Drellich on November 12, 2019, exposing…

Please note: I originally wrote this case study on October 4, 2021, for an assignment during my sports public relations graduate course at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. All information is intended to be sourced appropriately. Abstract: During the 2019–2020 Major League Baseball offseason, the…

Please note: I wrote this book review in March 2022 for a graduate school course at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. For my PR Management & Leadership course, I was assigned to read and write a review of a book related to public relations. I…

Please note: I created and wrote the following components of a social media plan for a final course project (JOUR 399: Social Media for Sports Media) at the University of South Carolina during the spring 2021 semester. This was developed for the Columbia Locomotives, a fictional American Hockey League expansion…

Note: I originally wrote this on November 1, 2021, for an assignment during my sports public relations graduate course at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Sixteen-year-old Arch Manning is not yet a student-athlete, but he is on track to secure an NIL deal worth millions…

Columbia, S.C. – Dr. Jerome Fitch’s career in collegiate athletics has spanned several decades, institutions and positions. Through them all, he has earned a reputation for leading many southeastern universities throughout transitions from the NAIA to the SIAC of the NCAA’s Division II. Currently the athletic director at Allen University…

Disclaimer: I produced this organizational backgrounder in August 2021 during a graduate school public relationswriting course at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. This information was part of a series of assignments that tasked me to write press materials from the perspective of the communications director…