Jay Horwitz has worked in public relations for the New York Mets since 1980. He began his career covering sports journalism and serving as the sports information director for Fairleigh Dickinson University. Horwitz now serves as the Vice President of Media Relations and Associate Travel Director for the Mets, managing over 50 clients and ensuring the entire organization is portrayed positively. His typical workday involves early mornings to prepare for day and night games, meetings with players and press, and long hours, even on weekends.

1. Jay Horwitz
Media Relations (PR) for the New York Mets
Alexis Greenauer

2. Who is Jay Horwitz?
• He was born in the year
1950 in the NYC area.
• Public relations is a
strategic
communication process
that builds mutually
beneficial relationships
between organizations
and their publics.

3. Life Timeline:
• He attended college at NYU
• Covered the Jets for Herald News
• Served as SID for Fairleigh Dickinson
University from 1970-1980
• In 1980 he left FDU to work for the New York
Mets eventually becoming the Vice President
of Media Relations and Associate Travel
Director

4. Why did he Want to Work in Sports?
• He was brought up a Mets
fan in his family.
• His dad bought him season
tickets every year for
Christmas
• He loved talking and making
people happy so he thought
by working with the Mets
players and fans he would
be able to have a career
doing the things he loves.

5. Biggest Challenge?
• The biggest challenge is
having over 50 clients to
take care of.
• Being a PR
representative for a
baseball team requires
you to keep the whole
organization in a
positive light.

6. Workday Timeline:
• Days include:
– Waking up around 5AM
for day games; 10AM for
night games.
– Has personal meetings
with players.
– Watches every day from
the dugout.
– Has meetings before
press conferences

7. Daily Hours and Traveling
• Hours include working
13 ½ each day and 5
hours each weekend
which equals 72 hours a
week.
• Baseball PR spokesman
travel all year around.

8. Advice from Horwitz
• Always pay attention to the people you work
with, you never know who will be a good
contact in the future.
• Work your hardest, be the person people look
up to.
• Always make time for your family, they are
your number one support system.

9. Video:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1kEmdJj
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10. Kevin Flanery
Presdient of Churchill Downs
Alexis Greenauer

11. What Does a President of a Company
do:
• The job title, president,
refers to the head of an
organization as in the
person who presides
over or is in charge of
an organization.

12. Career Path:
• Has a B.A. in psychology
from Bellarmine College
and a J.D. from the
University of Kentucky
• First job was cutting
grass
• Previous job Senior vice
president of national
public affairs and
communications
• Got where he is by
always working hard
and working from the
bottom up.

13. Advice to Aspiring Company
Presidents:
• Work your hardest
• If it is your passion, pursue it. Think about
what the sport can be, not what it has been.
We need creative thinkers to present the sport
to the next generation.

14. Interesting Facts:
• He likes Abraham
Lincoln because of all
the struggles he went
through and still
managed to leave a
change on our country.