J. Hern
WHO I AM
I’m Julius Hern, and I’m a 21 year old aspiring sports broadcaster and sportswriter from Barrie, ON.
I’m an extremely passionate fan of a wide variety of sports, both inside and outside of Canada, and am constantly tuning into some kind of sporting event every day.
I attended Cambrian College in Sudbury, ON, graduating from the media communications program in 2023. At Cambrian, we learned skills such as journalism, public relations, video/audio production, photography, digital media and marketing, digital design, and more.
I’ve also briefly volunteered for the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League, fulfilling duties such as graphic design, photography, and creating content for social media.
My goal is to be able to share my passion for sports with readers, listeners, and viewers worldwide with my strong writing and announcing. My goal is to work in the United States as a play-by-play announcer for a variety of professional sports on television and radio, while continuing to contribute to a regular writing column in a major newspaper or online medium.
WHAT I DO
I will be serving as a broadcaster for the Intercounty Baseball League’s Barrie Baycats for the 2023 season, while also filling reporting, photography, and writing duties.
I will be begin attending the College of Sports Media in Toronto in the fall of 2023, with graduation expected in the summer of 2025 after completion of a broadcasting internship.
I’m also soon launching a sports blog and podcast along with two of my friends called the Bulletin of Professional Sports (BOPS), where we focus on some of the lesser-known stories and discussions happening in the world of sports. Expect that to be launching heading into the summer of 2023.
Services and Skills
- Journalism
- Announcing
- Reporting
- Photography
- Interviewing
- Blogging
- Podcasting
- Videography
- Social Media Coordination
- Content Creation
- Public Relations
- Script Writing
- Digital Design
- Website Design
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe Creative Suite
An article written for barriebaycats.com about the team re-signing pitcher Frank Garces, and his previous experience in his baseball career.
A creative digital design project, in which I created my own custom Pokemon character, and provided a brief rationale for it.
A digital media and marketing assignment in which I created a mock small business, and provided a competition and online strategy for it in a report.
A media writing assignment in which we were tasked with interviewing a professional in the media field, and writing a hard news or feature story based on the interview. This article is based off of an interview I did with Joe Bacanovic, a video editor for Rogers Sportsnet.
A radio script re-write used for my admissions assessment for the College of Sports Media. It recaps the events in sports on November 17, 2022.
Images used for a photography portfolio assignment at Cambrian College. The images, cover a wide variety of styles, but there are many from a Sudbury Wolves game in October of 2021 when I worked for the team.
