Cameron Hurst began his career in communications as an intern at The Post-Journal newspaper, looking to cover sports. In lieu of a school newspaper, Hurst created The Rowdy Raider blog, which documented athletics at Jamestown High School, which accumulated 29,864 visitors, and 848 Twitter followers from 2013 to 2016. Further, a connected Twitter account accumulated 848 followers. In recognition of this, Hurst was one of three inaugural #PrepTalkLive Award honorees from The Buffalo News and deputy sports editor Keith McShea.
A 2020 graduate of St. Bonaventure University’s Jandoli School of Communication, Hurst worked as a communications intern for St. Bonaventure’s Department of Athletics, as a summer writing intern for the Office of Marketing & Communications, and as a development associate for the university’s Franciscan Center for Social Concern. He also covered the women’s basketball program for the Olean Times Herald.
Hurst was also a staff writer for TAPinto Greater Olean, a local news site directed by Dr. Rich Lee, associate professor of communication, and lecturer Anne Lee. Hurst covered a wide range of stories, notably the local impact of the sexual abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.
In October 2019, he coordinated and co-moderated a live studio debate between candidates vying to replace Catharine Young as the next state senator from the 57th Senate District, an event presented by the Jandoli Institute and SBU-TV.
Hurst spent two summers as a marketing intern at the Robert H. Jackson Center in his hometown of Jamestown, N.Y. While there, he embarked on a research project on the life of late-U.S. Sen. Charles Goodell, curating and designing an exhibit and producing a documentary on Goodell’s role as one of the first sitting senators to voice opposition to the Vietnam War.
He was awarded the prestigious Mark Hellinger Award by the university in 2020, awarded by SBU’s Jandoli School of Communication to “a senior who has demonstrated academic excellence and genuine promise in the area of journalism or mass communication.”
Since graduation, he returned to Jamestown, where he served as a staff reporter for The Post-Journal newspaper with bylines consistently appearing in sister publications, The Observer of Dunkirk, N.Y.
and The Times-Observer of Warren, Pa. As a reporter, Hurst covered the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on local school districts and municipalities, and contributed to important breaking news coverage across the southern tier of New York.
He entered the field of public relations in January of 2021 as a PR specialist for SUNY Jamestown Community College, assisting its Marketing & Communications team in disseminating important public information throughout the COVID-19 pandemic’s second year.
Since October of 2021, he has been a member of Erie 2-Chautauqua-Cattaraugus BOCES’ award-winning Communications & Development team, serving as the primary media contact and social media manager for the Springville-Griffith Institute Central School District, located 30 miles south of Buffalo, N.Y., and Pine Valley Central School in northeastern Chautauqua County.
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