Jack Styczynski has been a researcher since 1995 at NBC News, The New York Times, and People magazine, filling information requests for reporters and other staff and training them to “help themselves.” He also freelances as a sports feature writer and won U.S. Basketball Writers Association awards in 2009 and 2006. Previously, he was an award-winning news and sports director at radio stations in Louisiana and Massachusetts, and a freelance production assistant at NBC Sports in New York. He has a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from Hofstra University and an M.L.S. from the University at Albany.