Joe Gisondi

Joe Gisondi

Personal profile

About

I worked at several newspapers across Florida for more than 20 years, mostly in sports – Orlando Sentinel, Florida Today, Clearwater Sun, Fort Myers News-Press – before coming to Eastern in 2002. I taught for six years at Valencia Community College where the student newspaper earned three national ACP Pacemaker Awards, four regional ACP awards, and numerous state awards. At Eastern, I advised the Daily Eastern News from 2004-08 during which it also earned several national ACP Pacemaker Award nominations for its print and online editions, winning the online category once. I teach primarily reporting and sports media courses. The second edition of the Field Guide To Covering Sports, a text used in college classrooms across the country, was released by SAGE Publishing in 2017. The University of Nebraska Press published my nonfiction book, Monster Trek: The Obsessive Search for Bigfoot, about people who investigate sasquatch all across America in December 2015.  I have also been co-host for a sports media podcast at WEIU-FM for the past two years. Check out my sports media website as well.

Contact Information

Office: 2546 - Buzzard Hall
Phone: 2175816003
Email: [email protected]

Office hours: Virtual, TR 8:00-9:00 a.m. and MW 10:00-11:00 a.m.

Related documents

Education/Academic qualification

Creative Nonfiction, M.F.A., Spalding University

Literature, M.A., University of Central Florida

English, B.A., University of South Florida

Research Interests

  • Sports media
  • Title IX
  • Historical fiction
  • Paranormal

Disciplines

  • Journalism Studies