Panel: Online sports reporting in Philadelphia, Monday 4/25 at noon

Please join us at PhIJI.org for a discussion examining online sports journalism within the Philadelphia media ecosystem, Monday, April 25th at noon at Temple University.

Guests will include Enrico Campitelli, Jr., founder and writer at the700level.com, Philadelphia Associated Press sports writer Dan Gelston, and John Miller, publisher and president of Philly Sports Daily.

We will be meeting in Tuttleman 105. The Tuttleman Learning Center is at the corner of 13th Street and Montgomery Avenue on Temple’s main campus. (Map) All events start promptly at noon.

Campitelli

Enrico Campitelli Jr., a native of the Philadelphia area, has been writing about Philly sports on the Internet since 2004 when he founded one of Philly’s most popular sports blogs, The700Level.com. The site grew over time from a one person blog to a website with half a dozen contributors. The site was acquired by Comcast SportsNet in March of 2010 and is currently part of the CSNPhilly.com team. In addition to acquiring The700Level.com, Comcast hired Enrico to run the site full time. Enrico was one of the original bloggers at AOL’s FanHouse and has also written for Deadspin.com. A Finance and Information Systems major at Boston College (’03), Enrico also spent 4+ years in the business consulting industry working for Accenture. He later graduated from George Washington University’s MBA program in May 2009 with a concentration in sports management. Philly Style Magazine ranked him No. 1 in Philadelphia of people whose “online posts keep us in the know.”

Gelston

Dan Gelston has been a sports writer with the Associated Press in Philadelphia for more than six years. He covers the Phillies, Flyers, 76ers, Jon Bon Jovi and the Philadelphia Soul, and travels to cover NASCAR races. Gelston grew up in upstate New York, studied at the University of Kansas, and previously worked for the AP in Indianapolis. He tweets from behind the scenes at @apgelston.

Miller

John Miller is the Publisher and President of Philly Sports Daily, which launched in August 2010. He has worked in local broadcasting for more than two decades, currently serving as the award-winning Pre- and Post-game radio host for Philadelphia Eagles football on WYSP-FM. He was a partner in a Philadelphia Public Relations firm for 11 years before leaving in Fall 2010. He holds a BS in Public Relations with a concentration in Psychology from Syracuse University (1986). He currently lives in Horsham with his family.

This event also celebrates the opening day of Philly Tech Week, the first annual week-long celebration of technology and innovation in Philadelphia. More info: http://www.phillytechweek.com/

PhIJI events are free and open to the public.