Shemar Woods
Visiting Associate Professor in Sports Media - Innovation News Center
Office: 2311 Weimer
Phone: 352-294-3585
Email: shemar.woods@ufl.edu
Shemar Woods
Visiting Associate Professor in Sports Media - Innovation News Center
Woods is an award-winning newsroom leader and educator with more than a decade of experience shaping content and strategy at national media outlets. He has held editorial leadership roles at Sports Illustrated, ESPN, MLB.com, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Daily News, where he oversaw real-time sports coverage, long-form features and multimedia storytelling across digital platforms.
Most recently, Woods served as a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, a role he held since 2022. There, he helped lead the school’s sports journalism capstone program, mentoring undergraduate and graduate students in immersive digital storytelling.
Education
Bachelor’s Degree, Hampton University
Master’s Degree in Sports Law and Business, Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law