This event has been postponed.

Saturday, March 14, 2020 | Eaton Humanities 150 | University of Colorado Boulder

Join us for the second annual CMCI Sports Media Summit, an event that brings leading sports journalists, public relations executives and marketers to campus to talk about opportunities and challenges facing sports media today.

Open to alumni, the CU community and the public and free to attend.

CMCI Student Resume Review Session
10 to 11:30 a.m.

Covering the Olympic Games
1 to 2:15 p.m. (open to the public)

Neal Scarbrough (Jour'84) is a media executive, content developer and editorial lead with a long history of management, innovation and results in television, print and the Internet. Scarbrough currently serves as Vice President and Executive Editor for FOX Sports, where he literally referees the sports debates on FOX Sports’ studio shows. An unmatched content strategist, Neal’s career has afforded him opportunities to be a newsroom leader, executive producer, operations chief and digital general manager. A former Sports Editor of the Denver Post, Neal's shelf includes a Pulitzer Prize for his role in covering the Columbine tragedy and the Online Journalism Award for General Excellence earned by ESPN.com when he was its editor-in-chief. 

Jim Gray (Jour'81) has been a network television and national cable sportscaster since 1981. He is currently with Showtime, Fox, and Westwood One Radio. His career highlights include coverage of numerous Olympic Games, Super Bowls, World Series, NBA Finals,  NCAA Final Fours, Masters golf tournaments, and hundreds World Championship Boxing matches. He has won 11 national Emmy Awards. Jim, and his wife Frann, established the Jim Gray Scholarship Fund at the University of Colorado which grants scholarships at the University’s College of Media, Communication and Information to top students, as well as to students who are the first in their family to attend a college or university.

While studying at the University of Colorado, B.J. Hoeptner Evans (Jour'90) was the first female sports editor of the Campus Press and held an internship with the Denver Post. After graduating, she worked for various newspapers before accepting positions with USA Cycling and then USA Triathlon. She has served as communications manager for USA Volleyball since 2006 and will be working her sixth straight Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020.

Brent Schrotenboer (Jour'96) covered the Buffs for the Colorado Daily and interned at the Daily Camera before graduating from CU and embarking on a sports journalism career that started at a tiny paper in Louisiana covering high school sports. He later moved on to cover major college sports for daily newspapers in Texas and Alabama before landing in San Diego as an enterprise and investigative sports writer for the Union-Tribune. Since 2012, he’s covered national sports topics and events for USA TODAY and can be seen this fall in the ESPN film “Lance.”

Vicki Michealis is the Carmical Chair in Sports Journalism & Society at the University of Georgia, where she created and directs the Grady Sports Media program. Before joining UGA, she was USA Today's lead Olympics writer for more than a decade. She covered CU football in 1995-96 and the Denver Nuggets from 1997-99 for The Denver Post. She is a past president and chair of the Association for Women in Sports Media. 

Women in Media
2:45 to 4 p.m. (open to the public)

While studying at the University of Colorado, B.J. Hoeptner Evans (Jour'90) was the first female sports editor of the Campus Press and held an internship with the Denver Post. After graduating, she worked for various newspapers before accepting positions with USA Cycling and then USA Triathlon. She has served as communications manager for USA Volleyball since 2006 and will be working her sixth straight Olympic Games at Tokyo 2020.

Vicki Michealis is the Carmical Chair in Sports Journalism & Society at the University of Georgia, where she created and directs the Grady Sports Media program. Before joining UGA, she was USA Today's lead Olympics writer for more than a decade. She covered CU football in 1995-96 and the Denver Nuggets from 1997-99 for The Denver Post. She is a past president and chair of the Association for Women in Sports Media. 

Alissa Noe (Jour'16) graduated from the CU Boulder CMCI program in December of 2016 after spending three and a half years as the men's basketball beat writer for the CU Independent and as an intern/freelancer for the Boulder Daily Camera. After graduating, she freelanced for a host of  sports writing websites centered around Major League Baseball, the  National Hockey League and prep sports before accepting a position as the sports editor at three small-town weekly newspapers. For the past  two and a half years, she's served as the only sportswriter for the  Canyon Courier (Evergreen, CO), the Clear Creek Courant (Clear Creek  County) and Columbine Courier. She’s won eight Colorado Press Association awards. 

Neal Scarbrough (Jour'84) is the executive editor at Fox Sports. In this role, Scarbrough has editorial oversight of FS1’s studio programming and oversees news updates during the day while directing breaking news topics for discussion on FS1 studio programs. Prior to joining Fox, he worked at New England Sports Network (NESN) where he held the title of senior director. Prior to NESN, he was senior executive producer at Al Jazeera America. Neal also served on the team that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for General News Reporting and earned the Online Journalism Award for General Excellence as editor-in-chief of ESPN.com.

Jayne Simpson is a PhD student in the Communication department at CU Boulder, with a specific interest in sports organizations, social responsibility, and identity. She worked in sports at a number of levels, including for the Colorado High School Athletic Association (CHSAA), University of Texas at San Antonio athletics, and the Kansas City Chiefs. 

Photo by Gregory Bull (Jour'91) for the Associated Press.