John Genzale

John Genzale is the founding editor and served as editor-in-chief of Street & Smith’s Sports Business Journal. He currently writes two columns for Sports Business Journal: “Inside Out” and “Over the Fence.” Genzale joined Advance Publications’ American City Business Journals division in 1992 as editor in Phoenix, where he won numerous company and statewide awards for writing, design, and editing, including Arizona’s best feature writer and column writer. In 1995 he was named Publisher in Jacksonville. Genzale was managing editor of four Arizona Tribune daily newspapers published by Cox Newspapers (1988-1992), after serving the company as assistant managing editor of the award-winning Miami News (1982-1988). Genzale is the series editor on a line of sports management textbooks published by Elsevier. He has also been a featured subject in books, notably he was a “Gifted Boss” in Dale Dauten’s 1999 best-selling business book The Gifted Boss and the 2003 sequel, The Laughing Warrior. Genzale worked as an editor or reporter on daily newspapers in Philadelphia, Ft. Lauderdale, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Oakland. He owned, edited, and publishing the Lake Tahoe News from 1976 to 1980. He was an originator and the host of the World Congress of Sports, Sports Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40,” and dozens of other industry conferences, and has been a frequent guest on television and radio. He taught courses in sports business at New York University (2003-2005), and taught upper-division editing at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism for from 1989 to 1995. He also taught journalism at Florida International University, Miami-Dade College, and Chabot College in California. Genzale is a Vietnam veteran, having served on a Green Beret “A Team” in the U.S. Army Special Forces from 1968 to 1971. He has taught skiing and has coached and played amateur baseball—he coached the United States men’s team for the “Friendship Games” in Australia in 1992. He played on the United States team in the Nike World Masters Games in August 1998. Genzale is special assistant to the president of the Italian Baseball Federation (FIBS), and is charged with creating the first commercial league by modifying the 60-year-old “Serie A,” the top level of professional baseball in Italy. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and bachelor’s degrees in political science (with honors) and journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.

John Genzale is the Director of Industry Outreach. He also teaches Seminar in Sports Business.