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 does some sports writing and has won three United States Basketball Writers Association awards. 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.