Jordan Bernfield: six years later, doing sports and news on TV and radio

Jordan Bernfield is now doing news and sports at WGN Radio, in addition to doing play-by-play for ESPN, BTN, and NBC. He gives advice for getting into radio and media, talks about working at WSCR The Score, how to deal with competition, how to do sports prep and play-by-play effectively, how doing sports has helped him write and cover news, what it’s like to work in both news and sports, what it’s like to do TV vs radio, why being versatile is important, and more. I first interviewed him exactly six years ago at WGN.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG164.mp3

Here's a video I did when he was at WGN Radio earlier in his career:

Jordan Bernfield: sports show prep

Jordan Bernfield: Sports Radio Prep from Margaret Larkin on Vimeo.

Jordan Bernfield talks about being at the Cubs game during the Steve Bartman incident and explains how he's been prepping for hosting the David Kaplan Show with Mark Carman on WGN Radio in Chicago.

Jordan Bernfield: sports prediction confirmed

Jordan Bernfield, who hosts Cubs Weekly, Preps Plus Chicago, Northwestern football and basketball broadcasts, and does various sports segments and fill-ins on WGN, and who I predicted would do well in the radio biz, does an update about his new on-air career and talks about hard work; how Dave Eanet, Dave Kaplan, Tom Langmyer, and a vocal coach have helped him; how he deals with haters; the difference between producing and being on air; advice for getting on the air; his obsession with the Cubs; playing guitar and cooking; his food photos; teaching a radio play-by-play class at Columbia College, and more.

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http://radiogirl.us/audio/RG112.mp3