Ben Blessington

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Los Angeles Chargers  | Production Assistant | July 2024 - January 2025

• Oversaw the Chargers Weekly podcast, including shooting, editing, uploading, creating thumbnails, and cutting promotional teases for social media platforms

• Shot and edited sponsored content for Toyota, American Airlines, UCLA Health, & more

• Assisted in creation of YouTube shorts for daily posting schedule 

• Edited weekly Spanish radio calls of the game in various formats

• Shot and operated audio equipment for press conferences & media availabilities

• Shot NFL games and practices

• Logged and managed media assets

Imperial Woodpecker | Production Assistant | September 2022 - June 2024

• Assisted wherever needed, including digitizing job records, image research for treatments, handling talent on set, etc.

• Worked on Pluto TV’s Super Bowl spot, AT&T’s March Madness series, & Google’s AI campaign

Cool Your Jets Podcast | Host & Producer | August 2019 - July 2024

• Recorded and edited weekly podcast providing top analytics, interviews, film breakdowns, and debates about the New York Jets

• Secured on-air interviews with Jets players (e.g. John Franklin-Myers, Thomas Morstead, Bryce Huff, etc.)

• Averaged 6k listeners per show, with as many as 20k on select episodes

• Managed Twitter account with over 8.5k followers

FOX Sports | Marketing Intern | Summer 2021

• Selected as one of three interns with rotations in operations, production, brand, and strategies /
  creative partnerships

• Responsibilities included pitching activation ideas to promote in-studio programs and marquee sporting events, concepting brand partnership platforms to increase ad dollar commitments, logging in-game graphics, quality control on-air promos, etc.

NCC News | BDJ Capstone | January - May 2023

• Rotated jobs at producer, anchor, reporter, camera, and editor for Syracuse University’s
  student run news network

• Tasked with creating a weekly, live, 30-minute news broadcast all in a single work day

• Gained experience anchoring, producing, filming, interviewing and editing in a high-pressure studio environment

EDUCATION
Syracuse University | S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications | Class of 2023

Broadcast & Digital Journalism Major, Philosophy Minor 

SKILLS
Adobe CC (Premiere, Photoshop, Audition, InDesign); Canon C300/XF705; Arri Amira; Blackmagic URSA; Lectrosonic transmitters & receivers; standard audio equipment including boom, parabolic, & lavalier mics; Iconik asset management; YouTube; Riverside; StreamYard; Megaphone; Apple Podcasts; Spotify Ad Analytics