Ashley Marshall, Sports journalist | Features writer | Sports photographer | Photo editor

About

SPORTS JOURNALIST

As a sports writer I produce news articles, game recaps, player interviews and season previews for MLB.com and MiLB.com. I work with media directors, press officers and photographers to produce well-written and timely content for a range of websites and digital platforms.

I previously worked for Sky Sports covering the English Premier League soccer beat for SkySports.com and for the Harrogate Advertiser covering soccer, rugby and cricket for a group of six weekly newspapers.

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FEATURES WRITER

As a features writer I conduct in-depth interviews and produce long-form articles for MiLB.com, BleacherReport.com and my personal blog, [email protected]. I use these opportunities to tell stories about athletes that often get overlooked in shorter, news-orientated pieces. I enjoy delving into a player's background and writing about what motivates them to succeed.

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SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHER

As a sports photographer I have had my work published on a range of sports websites from MLB.com, MiLB.com and Yankees.com (baseball) to USOpen.org (tennis), AOL (softball and lacrosse) and MaxPreps (baseball). I take pride in providing photo editors and news organizations with a variety of timely images suitable for editorial and creative use.

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PHOTO EDITOR

As a photo editor at the US Open Tennis Championships I helped showcase the work of staff and agency photographers credentialed at the two-week event. Working on site, I ingested and selected images, added metadata and captions, cropped images and built galleries. I also edited images to ensure correct exposure and color balance, and I made minor adjustments to shadows and highlights using photo editing software.

In addition, I maintained a searchable database of images and provided real-time feedback to staff photographers as part of a quality control process.

Education

Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Journalism

University of Central Lancashire

2002 - 2005
Ba (Hons) Journalism

State University of New York College at Plattsburgh

2003 - 2004

Experience

Photographer

CBS MaxPreps

Jan 2014 - Present (12 years 5 months)

I shoot a variety of varsity and junior varsity sports in and around New York City and its five boroughs and Long Island. I cover a range of leagues, including Section 8 in Nassau County and the PSAL and CHSAA in New York City.

Featured galleries include baseball, softball, lacrosse, basketball and hockey.
Editorial Producer

Major League Baseball

Apr 2009 - Present (17 years 2 months)

I cover Minor League Baseball for MLB.com and MiLB.com. As a writer and editorial producer, I am responsible for producing original content, game stories, player interviews and season recaps. In addition, I help maintain a number of dynamic sites, including the official Minor League Baseball website, player pages and league landing pages.

I also shoot Minor League Baseball games throughout the season, and I frequently edit, crop and caption images maintained in an extensive online database. In addition, I create graphics to accompany stories and website content and I help manage a collection of social media sites, including Twitter and Facebook.
Contributing photographer

The Topps Company

Jul 2013 - Oct 2013 (3 months)

I sold several photographs to Topps which were used in their 2013 Topps Heritage Minor League edition.

My images were used on base cards, sequentially-numbered parallels, autographed cards, inserts and commemorative hat patches.
Photo Editor

USTA

Aug 2013 - Sep 2013 (1 month)

I worked as a freelance photo editor at the 2013 US Open Championships in New York.

I worked alongside photographers in a team of editors on-site at the tournament to produce images for the USOpen.org website.

The bulk of my work consisted of ingesting and copying original images onto servers and networks and batch-adding metadata and tags using photo Mechanic software. I would then perform a series
of edits, from cropping images to predetermined sizes to correcting basic tonal and color-balance problems. I would make minimal adjustments to color, contrast and saturation and I provided real-time feedback to staff photographers as part of a quality control process.

In addition, I created daily photo galleries by match or by an individual theme, and I produced multi-photo images from use on the website's homepage when a specific need was identified by the editorial content team.

Around 80 of my photographs were used on the website throughout the tournament.
Freelance sports journalist and photographer

Patch.com

Mar 2010 - Sep 2012 (2 years 6 months)

I covered a number of Garden City High School's varsity sports teams, including girls' softball, and boys' baseball, lacrosse, football and soccer.

I wrote season previews and match reports, and I complemented each article with action photos taken during the game.

In addition, I covered the 2011 NCAA Division II women's lacrosse semifinals and finals at Adelphi University, and I shot a number of events in the town, including Memorial Day and Veteran's Day.
Freelance Contributor

Ultimate Athlete Magazine

Jan 2010 - Mar 2012 (2 years 2 months)

I wrote features on a number of high school sports teams across Long Island, Manhattan and Queens, including lacrosse, basketball, wrestling and gymnastics.

My articles were featured in the New York City and Long Island print publications and online at UltimateAthleteMagazine.com
Senior Reporter, Harrogate Advertiser

Johnston Press

Jun 2006 - Jun 2009 (3 years)

For three years I worked for Ackrill Media Group writing for up to six newspapers each week. I was shortlisted for the Feature Writer of the Year award at the Yorkshire Press Awards, and in 2009 I was highly commended in the Young Journalist of the Year category at the O2 Media Awards

I was responsible for writing news articles, sports stories and in-depth features for our weekly publications and I was instrumental in developing the newspaper’s growing website. I was the flagship newspaper's dedicated council and government reporter, and I also reported on everything from Crown Court murder trials and royal visits to new business openings and annual school education reports.

In addition to publishing directly to the website and updating the content management system throughout the day, I helped set the news agenda, liaise with sub-editors and photographers, and coordinate a team of junior reporters and interns.
Sports Reporter

Sky

Jul 2008 - Jun 2009 (11 months)

At Sky Sports I produced online content for their website. I was responsible for writing stories, headlines and captions, editing and producing articles from contributors, sourcing audio and video from our partners and selecting images and agency copy from wire sources.

Most of my work focused on covering the English Premier League football beat. I provided real-time text commentary on a match, interacted with fans on the website and assigned fantasy rankings for every player's performances to be used throughout the site on its fantasy football gaming pages. I also wrote a match report and a subsequent article on the managers' post-match press conference.

In addition, I wrote rugby, cricket and athletics stories for the website.

Skills

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Ashley Marshall

Graphic Designer

Industrial Design Director