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2014 to 2019 · Sports Editor-in-Chief

Def Pen Media

Rob ran Def Pen's national sports desk for five years, leading an editorial staff of 7+ writers while personally publishing roughly 10 SEO-optimized stories a day. His author archive on defpen.com still shows 3,923 bylined posts, all live today.

Rob's role

Editorial
Led a staff of 7+ writers as Sports Editor-in-Chief, publishing roughly 10 stories daily himself.
Social
Managed accounts with a 130K+ combined following in the era, including Def Pen Hoops, its Instagram, and Def Pen Sports, with Vine content reaching 51M+ loops.
Reach
Bylines and work featured in Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, Fox Sports, CBS Sports, and NBC Sports. The author archive is still live.
7+
Writers led
130K+
Combined social following in the era
51M+
Vine loops
The receipts

The accounts and archive, still live

Def Pen Hoops on X

@DefPenHoops

The basketball account Rob ran in the era. Still publishing today.

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Def Pen Hoops on Instagram

@defpenhoops

The Instagram side of the basketball brand from Rob's era.

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Def Pen Sports on X

@DefPenSports

The wider sports desk Rob led as Editor-in-Chief.

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The author archive

3,923

Bylined posts on defpen.com under Rob's name, still live, running through March 2019.

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Live from the feed

Def Pen Hoops today

The account, a decade on and still publishing
On camera

Reporting from the floor

Beyond the desk, Rob did on-camera interviews and floor reporting for Def Pen, from a Knicks locker room exchange with Joakim Noah to a sit-down with Blazers guard Evan Turner.

Joakim Noah on Phil Jackson's pull-ups story, Knicks, July 2016
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Jeff Hornacek at his Knicks introductory press conference, June 2016
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Interviewing Blazers guard Evan Turner, July 2017
Ringside

Covering the big fight

On site for the Mayweather vs McGregor pre-fight press conference in New York, July 2017.

Rob at the Mayweather vs McGregor pre-fight press conference in New York
Mayweather vs McGregor pre-fight press conference, New York, July 2017
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