Journalism Portfolio

This section features Ben’s writing samples from a variety of publications over the years.

Articles for The Oxford Student:

• “Naked Ambition: The Real Tennis Player” — published on February 11, 2012.
• “Why 2012 Is Not Looking Rosy for Tennis” — published on February 4, 2012.
• “Chipping In: Is Andy Murray the Arsenal of Tennis?” — published on February 4, 2012.
• “Murray ready to go to the O2″ — published on November 17, 2011. (Link forthcoming)
• “Scream when you’re winning” — published on November 3, 2011. (Link forthcoming)
• Additional reporting for “Oxford faces essay crisis” — published on November 3, 2011. (Link forthcoming)
• Additional reporting for “You come to expect inappropriate touching” — published on October 27, 2011.
• “Call to unionise for ATP Players” — published on October 20, 2011. (Link forthcoming)
• “Oxford student in US embassy attack” — published on October 13, 2011. (Link forthcoming)

Articles on USOpen.org:

• “Four American Girls in Action in Junior Tournament” — published on September 9, 2011.
• “Rain Delays Force Junior Tournament Off Site, Americans Score Big” — published on September 8, 2011.

Articles for Tennis Magazine US Open Preview digital issue:

• “Andre the Elder” — published on August 15, 2011.
• “Rafa Through the Years” — published on August 15, 2011.

Articles on Cincytennis.com:

• “Sharapova Claims Cincinnati Title Over Jankovic” — published on August 21, 2011.
• “King, Shvedova and Bhupathi, Paes Claim Doubles Titles” — published on August 21, 2011.
• “Murray Wins Second Cincinnati Title” — published on August 21, 2011.
• “Food Court to be Expanded” — published on August 21, 2011.
• “Men’s and Women’s Doubles Finals Set” — published on August 20, 2011.
• “Murray, Djokovic and Sharapova, Jankovic into Finals” — published on August 20, 2011.
• “Women’s Semifinalists Play Tonight” — published on August 20, 2011.
• “Berdych, Petkovic Advance to Semifinals” — published on August 19, 2011.
• “Fish Defeats Nadal, Zvonareva Advances to Semis” — published on August 19, 2011.
• “Djokovic Continues Nearly Perfect Season” — published on August 19, 2011.
• “Attendance Up 23% from 2010” — published on August 19, 2011.
• “Federer, Jankovic and Bryan Brothers Advance” — published on August 18, 2011.
• “Nadal, Stosur, Sharapova Reach Quarterfinals” — published on August 18, 2011.
• “Eight Grand Slam Champions Play Thursday” — published on August 18, 2011.
• “Djokovic, Peer into Round of 16” — published on August 17, 2011.
• “Day Match Recap: Nadal, Zvonareva Advance” — published on August 17, 2011.
• “McHale Upsets World No. 1 Wozniacki” — published on August 17, 2011.
• “Six World No.1s in Action Wednesday” — published on August 17, 2011.
• “Federer, Sharapova Advance to Third Round” — published on August 16, 2011.
• “Day Match Recap: Serena Williams Wins, Isner Loses” — published on August 16, 2011.
• “Chinese Juniors Watch Li Defeat Safarova” — published on August 16, 2011.
• “Federer, Sharapova Lead Tuesday Night Matches” — published on August 16, 2011.
• “Roddick Upset, Ivanovic Advances” — published on August 15, 2011.
• “Nine Grand Slam Winners Play Tuesday” — published on August 15, 2011.
• “Federer, Sharapova Praise Newly Combined Event” — published on August 15, 2011.
• “Roddick, Ivanovic Head Monday Night Matches” — published on August 15, 2011.
• “Blake, del Potro Advance to Second Round” — published on August 14, 2011.
• “Stepanek, Craybas Qualify into Main Draw” — published on August 14, 2011.
• “Peschke, Srebotnik Lead Women’s Doubles Draw” — published on August 14, 2011.
• “Harrison Throws First Pitch for the Reds” — published on August 14, 2011.
• “Venus Williams Highlights Early Sunday Action” — published on August 14, 2011.
• “Bryan Brothers Lead Cincinnati Doubles Field” — published on August 14, 2011.
• “Blake, Stephens Headline Kid’s Day” — published on August 13, 2011.
• “Four Americans Advance to Qualifying Second Round” — published on August 13, 2011.
• “Sharapova, Blake, Isner Prep for W & S Open” — published on August 13, 2011.
• “Qualifying Tournament Kick Off” — published on August 12, 2011.
• “2011 Draw Party” — published on August 12, 2011.
• “Roddick, del Potro, Wozniacki Lead Practice Court Action” — published on August 12, 2011.
• “Federer and Clijsters’ Last 8 Months” – published on April 5, 2011.

Articles for The Baltimore Sun:

• “Junior Tennis Champions Center ‘One of the Best‘” — published on July 21, 2011.
• “Ellicott City Native Capra Will Have Busy Summer Before Heading to Duke” — published on June 19, 2011.

Multimedia Galleries on Tennis.com:

• “Fortnight Finished: Wimbledon Wrap-Up” — published on July 5, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 8” — published on June 28, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 7” — published on June 27, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 6” — published on June 25, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 5” — published on June 24, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 4” — published on June 23, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 3” — published on June 22, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 2” — published on June 21, 2011.
• “What We Watched at Wimbledon, Day 1” — published on June 20, 2011.
• “Experience the US Open Experience” — published on June 14, 2011.

Articles on WTT.com:

• “Kastles’ Rodionova, Stubbs Discuss Perfect Season” — published on August 11, 2011.
• “Serena, Hingis to Play with Live Stream Available” — published on July 16, 2011.
• “Schnack ‘Blessed’ to Play for Sacramento Capitals in First WTT Season” — published on July 11, 2011.
• “Week Two Features Bjorn Borg Against John McEnroe, Top WTT Talent” — published on July 10, 2011.
• “Obama Family Watches as Serena’s Kastles Defeat Lobsters” — published on July 8, 2011.
• “Evans Looks to Compete ‘at the Highest Level’ with Freedoms” — published on June 30, 2011.
• “Kuznetsov’s Focus is On Helping Explorers Repeat as WTT Champs” — published on June 30, 2011.
• “Kastles’ Williams Sisters Reach Third Round” — published on June 23, 2011.
• “McEnroe, Chenoweth Talk WTT and Billie Jean King in Times Square” — published on June 21, 2011.
• “Wimbledon Draw for WTT Players Revealed” — published on Jun 17, 2011.
• “Venus Plans to Play WTT for ‘as Long as You’ll Have Me’” — published on June 14, 2011.
• “WTT Stars Q & A” — published on June 7, 2011.
• “Doubles Results from Roland Garros: Eight WTT Players Earn Success in Paris” — published on June 2, 2011.

Posts Contributed to Tennis Served Fresh:

• “Going Green: Venus Williams (‘s Diet)” — published on November 21, 2011.
• “PAST&E: After-School Success in PDX” — published on July 27, 2011.
• “It’s On: Serena Makes Her Comeback” — published on June 14, 2011.
• “Meet Plane Jumper, Nick Bollettieri” — published on May 25, 2011.
• “Short Balls: Jewelry Gets Ballsy Inspiration” — published on April 7, 2011.
• “Short Balls: An Ailing Andy (and Rafa Drinks Rum!)” — published on March 30, 2011.
• “Serena Goes…Sexy?…in Game Ad” — published on March 25, 2011.
• “Short Balls: Tennis Goes Cross Country” — published on March 23, 2011.
• “Short Balls: March Madness” — published on March 18, 2011.
• “Short Balls: Serena’s Out, 3D’s In and Mac’s Prodigy” — published on March 11, 2011.
• “That’s a Wrap: Re-hashing Davis Cup” — published on March 9, 2011.
• “Davis Cup: Feeling the Heat in Chile” — published on March 4, 2011.
• “Short Balls: Bad Blood – Old and New” — published on March 3, 2011.
• “Short Balls: Goodbye Counselor” — published on February 23, 2011.
• “The Raonic-Dancevic Equation“  — published on February 19, 2011.
• “Short Balls: Ladies in Wanting” — published on February 16, 2011.
• “The Battle of the Husbands” — published on January 29, 2011.
• “A Letter to Juju from the Tennis Establishment” — published on January 26, 2011.

Article on CNN.com / CNNmoney.com / Fortune.com:

• “Tony Hayward’s greatest hits” — published on June 10, 2010.

Articles on Fortune.com:

• “Pandora by the dashboard light” — published on August 25, 2010.
• “Why HCL Technologies puts employees ahead of customers” — published on July 22, 2010.
• “Analysts remain bullish on Google, still lower price targets” — published on July 16, 2010.
• “How technology can help spread literacy“  — published on July 14, 2010.

Multimedia gallery on Yahoo.com / Fortune.com:

• “America’s most unusual planned communities” — published on July 15, 2010.

Multimedia galleries on Fortune.com:

• “The Oprah Spinoffs” — published on September 27, 2010.
• “The Fortune Global Forum Visionaries” — published on June 16, 2010.
  • Quoted in The Times of India in “Lakshmi Mittal, two other Indians in Fortune’s visionary list” on June 20, 2010.
• “The rise of BP” — published on June 14, 2010.
• “Inside Abu Dhabi’s insane Ferrari theme park” — published on June 14, 2010.
• “Bizarre drug knock-offs around the globe” — published on June 7, 2010.

Articles for The Quindecim:

• “Snyder at Oxford: Where Goucher and Mansfield meet” — published on November 18, 2011.
• “Women’s cross country takes Coach Achtezhn Classic, Currier with first place finish” — published on September 23, 2011.
• “First place teams raise bar for Goucher athletics” — published on May 6, 2011.
• “Sally Baum: Inspirational leader, ‘one of a kind’” — published on May 6, 2011.
• “Women’s Tennis: Four named to First Team All-Conference” — published on May 6, 2011.
• “Women’s tennis claims first place with Senior Day win” — published on April 25, 2011.
• “David E. Sanger addresses US foreign policy” — published on April 25, 2011.
• “What Goucher should learn from journalism in Egypt” — published on March 4, 2011.
• “Damaged cable causes campus power outages” — published on February 16, 2011.
• “Bye June performs for Valentine’s Day” — published on February 16, 2011.
• “New sanctions policy awaits approval” — published on February 11, 2011.
• “Students continue efforts to curb vandalism” — published on December 9, 2010.
• “Goucher graded in college sustainability report” — published on November 19, 2010.
• “Alcohol, drug-related incidents reach high” — published on November 5, 2010.
• “Seniors win inaugural Goph-Fest” — published on November 5, 2010.
• “Jacqui Lamer: the official gopher handler” — published on November 5, 2010.
• “Librarian Guccione remembered” — published on October 22, 2010.
• “Sexual misconduct policy revised” — published on October 11, 2010.
• “Finances discussed at first Senate meeting” — published on October 2, 2010.
• “SGA launches Goucher Activist Network” — published on October 2, 2010.
• “2010 Goucher Vagabonds travel East Coast” — published on October 2, 2010.
• “Internship program among nation’s best” — published on September 10, 2010.
• “State grants $3 million to rebuild Julia Rogers” — published on September 10, 2010.
• “Goucher celebrates 125th birthday across the nation” — published on August 25, 2010.
• “Personality Profile: Scott Davis” — published on April 15, 2010.
• “Peter Krause bikes across America” — published on April 15, 2010.
• “Faculty considers gen ed reform” — published on March 6, 2010.
• “Dr. Tom Kelliher on Goucher, FEC, hiking” — published on March 6, 2010.
• “Goucher hosts rare faculty retreat” — published on February 13, 2010.
• “E-Cigarette use to be restricted on campus” — published on December 9, 2009.
• “Up close with Dashell Fittry, Class of 2013 President” — published on November 20, 2009.
• “College Administration debates E-Cigarette Policy” — published on November 20, 2009.
• “Strong Fall season for women’s tennis team” — published on November 3, 2009.
• “Swine Flu update” — published on November 3, 2009.
• “Freshman profile: Julia Goffredi” — published on October 22, 2009.

Article in The Island Times from Peaks Island, Maine:

• The Island Times – September 2008
  • My article:
    • “Peaks Island Norway maple in competition for largest in Maine” — published on front page.

Issues of The Classic from Townsend Harris High School:

• The Classic – June 2009
  • My articles:
    • “Budget ‘crisis’ brings severe budget cuts; approval for extra funding possible” — published on front page.
    • “Cowen steps down after ‘fairy tale’ career” — published on page three.
• The Classic – May 2009
  • My articles:
    • “Marine Biologist Ott discusses Exxon Valdez oil spill” — published on page four.
    • “NY1 films fencers” — published on page twelve.
• The Classic April Fools – April 2009
• The Classic – March 2009
  • My articles:
    • “SPARK program under fire” — published on page two.
    • “Spark faces budget cuts; possible removal” — published on page two.
• The Classic – February 2009
  • My article:
    • “Fight for Funding: A Call to Rally” — published on page two.
• The Classic – December 2008
  • My articles:
    • “Ceremony celebrates Intel award” — published on front page.
    • “Budget cuts slash per-session spending” — published on front page.
• The Classic – October 2008
  • My articles:
    • “So Not Our Thing shows humorous satire” — published on page two.
    • “Final budget cuts leave Harris with 1.4 percent less” — published on page three.
• The Classic – June 2008
  • My articles:
    • “Planned Budget Cuts Deemed ‘Outrageous’” — published on front page.
    • “Cunningham retires, bids farewell” — published on page three.
• The Classic – May 2008
  • My article:
    • “Principal search moves to Level II: — published on front page.