Jack Goodwillie
Expertise
Retro Video Game History And Preservation, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), PC Building
- Jack helped establish the professional wrestling website The Wrestling Estate in 2017, overseeing year-over-year viewership growth for six consecutive years.
- He served as a judge for the CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors of America) Writing Contest in 2020 and 2021.
- He has his hands in several projects, including long-form video content script writing and game design.
Experience
Jack has been in the professional writing space since 2015, getting his start covering high school sports for The Philadelphia Inquirer. He went on to become a Sports Information Director, running athletic communications for Caltech and Whittier College, the latter of which he served as Assistant Athletic Director. Through these jobs, Jack gained an expanded appreciation for technology as the unofficial IT coordinator for each department, coordinating and implementing live broadcasts for home games and troubleshooting computer problems around the department while maintaining the websites. He came to Slashgear after contributing to Wrestling Inc. as a features writer. He has a vested interest in video game preservation, and has performed upgrades on consoles such as the Nintendo GameCube and Gameboy SP.
Education
Jack graduated from Temple University in 2015, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and a minor in U.S. History.
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Stories By Jack Goodwillie
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