Daniel Bar­let­ta
28 Over­lea Ave., Saugus, MA 01906
(617) 797‑8932 | danielmbarletta@gmail.com

Edu­ca­tion

Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, Storrs, CT
Bach­e­lor of Arts, Jour­nal­ism                                                                                                                   May 2021
Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Minor
GPA: 3.96/4.00

Hon­ors and Awards: Sopho­more Hon­ors, Dean’s List, New Eng­land Schol­ar, Alpha Lamb­da Delta Nation­al Hon­or Soci­ety, Nation­al Soci­ety of Col­le­giate Schol­ars, Bar­bara Hill Jour­nal­ism Award, Shee­han Memo­r­i­al Scholarship

Jour­nal­ism Experience

The Dai­ly Cam­pus, Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, Storrs, CT                                               August 2018-May 2021
Sports Edi­tor and Staff Writer

  • Lead the sports sec­tion by super­vis­ing a team of writ­ers, cre­at­ing week­ly bud­gets, assign­ing beats and sto­ries and run­ning meetings
  • Cov­er UConn men’s bas­ket­ball, men’s and women’s hock­ey, soft­ball, women’s soc­cer, cross coun­try and women’s lacrosse teams by attend­ing games and writ­ing game pre­views, recaps and fea­ture sto­ries on play­ers and coaches
  • Write oth­er arti­cles on col­lege and pro­fes­sion­al sports, includ­ing a week­ly col­umn, for news­pa­per and website
  • Read and edit all sto­ries for AP style, gram­mar, spelling and oth­er errors for the paper’s final production
  • Design the lay­out of the newspaper’s sports sec­tion with arti­cles, pic­tures and head­lines for print

UCTV Stu­dent Tele­vi­sion, Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, Storrs, CT                                      April 2018-May 2021
Sports Depart­ment Member

  • Film and report on games for UConn bas­ket­ball, soc­cer, base­ball and oth­er sports
  • Man­age social media pages while at games
  • Make pack­ages and high­light reels of games using video edit­ing software
  • Appear on and help pro­duce sports talk and debate shows 

UConn Ath­let­ics, Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, Storrs, CT                                                  August 2019-May 2021
Fea­ture Writer

  • Inter­view ath­letes from var­i­ous sports and write fea­ture sto­ries on them for UConn Huskies website
  • Cov­er news con­fer­ences and events for game advances or oth­er articles
  • Began a “Get­ting to Know the Fresh­men” inter­view series with the foot­ball and hock­ey teams

MassLive, Spring­field, MA                                                                                               Octo­ber 2020-May 2021
High School Sports Clerk

  • Receive scores and stats for high school games in West­ern Mass­a­chu­setts and put them into a data­base that keeps track of each team’s sched­ule and every player’s stats
  • Write sto­ries about some of the most impor­tant games of the day as well as fea­ture sto­ries about ath­letes in the area

This Week in Worces­ter, Worces­ter, MA                                                                                April-August 2019
Boston Sports Correspondent

  • Wrote week­ly arti­cles recap­ping Red Sox, Patri­ots, Bru­ins and Celtics game results and news

Gate­house Media, Dan­vers, MA                                                                                              June-August 2018
Sports Depart­ment Intern

  • Cov­ered high school tour­na­ment games of all spring sports (base­ball, soft­ball, boys and girls lacrosse) in Greater Boston 
  • Con­duct­ed post-game inter­views and wrote game sto­ries pub­lished in local papers and on websites
  • Recorded/produced pod­casts and wrote week­ly columns on the Red Sox
  • Wrote fea­ture sto­ries on sum­mer base­ball teams

Oth­er Experience

Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut, Storrs, CT                                                                             August-Decem­ber 2018
Hon­ors First Year Expe­ri­ence Facilitator

  • Worked with co-facil­i­ta­tor to cre­ate plans for class and come up with activ­i­ties to keep stu­dents engaged
  • Act­ed as a men­tor to first-year hon­ors stu­dents and helped them adjust to life on campus

Skills

Jour­nal­is­tic: Writ­ing on dead­line, AP style, inter­view­ing, sports his­to­ry knowl­edge, cam­era work
Com­put­er: Word­Press; Final Cut Pro; Adobe Pre­miere, Pho­to­shop, Audi­tion and InDe­sign; Excel, SEO
Social Media: Twit­ter, Insta­gram, Snapchat and Facebook