About Chuck
For my online resume, please visit www.chuckwasserstrom.com
If you clicked on this page, then you might be a little curious about me and my background. So thanks for having an interest in me!
I was born in Chicago and grew up on the far north side of the city. I’m a proud product of the Chicago Public School system.
I read the newspaper cover-to-cover every day as a kid, and I knew I wanted to get into writing. I’m sure that somewhere in my parents’ basement, there still exists that elementary school interview I did with Harry Volkman for the Rogers Review.
The writing bug really kicked in during my high school years – as Pro Football Weekly was right across the street from Mather High School. I could barely drive when I was already getting my first taste of writing for a professional publication.
My college years were awesome in so many respects due to the University of Missouri experience. I was introduced to media relations under the tutelage of legendary sports information director Bill Callahan. I then entered the School of Journalism and worked on the Columbia Missourian staff – a daily newspaper in which I gained valuable experience as a beat writer, copy editor and teaching assistant.
The plan all along was to start out of town in a newspaper role and matriculate my way back to Chicago, but it didn’t quite happen that way. I was lucky enough to be selected to intern in the Cubs’ media relations department after my junior year … which led to a second internship … which led to receiving a full-time job offer the night before graduation.
I spent nearly 25 seasons with the Cubs – 16 years in the Media Relations department and nine in Baseball Operations, where I reported directly to the general manager in an internal communications/executive project administrator capacity. I jokingly referred to it as a “jack of all trades, master of none” position, but the core of everything I did was rooted in written and verbal internal communications. Thanks to my time with the Cubs, I met the President, I was involved in promoting several major award winners, and I even found myself on a newspaper cover.
In Media Relations, I got my writing fix in with press releases, daily game notes and the annual regular season and postseason media information guides. And when I needed to be a little creative, I was a contributing writer to the club's VineLine Magazine.
I’ve been involved in several different ventures since my Baseball Chuck days, but at the heart of everything I’ve done has been the art of written communications. Words, sentences and paragraphs still matter in a 140-character world.
I was born in Chicago and grew up on the far north side of the city. I’m a proud product of the Chicago Public School system.
I read the newspaper cover-to-cover every day as a kid, and I knew I wanted to get into writing. I’m sure that somewhere in my parents’ basement, there still exists that elementary school interview I did with Harry Volkman for the Rogers Review.
The writing bug really kicked in during my high school years – as Pro Football Weekly was right across the street from Mather High School. I could barely drive when I was already getting my first taste of writing for a professional publication.
My college years were awesome in so many respects due to the University of Missouri experience. I was introduced to media relations under the tutelage of legendary sports information director Bill Callahan. I then entered the School of Journalism and worked on the Columbia Missourian staff – a daily newspaper in which I gained valuable experience as a beat writer, copy editor and teaching assistant.
The plan all along was to start out of town in a newspaper role and matriculate my way back to Chicago, but it didn’t quite happen that way. I was lucky enough to be selected to intern in the Cubs’ media relations department after my junior year … which led to a second internship … which led to receiving a full-time job offer the night before graduation.
I spent nearly 25 seasons with the Cubs – 16 years in the Media Relations department and nine in Baseball Operations, where I reported directly to the general manager in an internal communications/executive project administrator capacity. I jokingly referred to it as a “jack of all trades, master of none” position, but the core of everything I did was rooted in written and verbal internal communications. Thanks to my time with the Cubs, I met the President, I was involved in promoting several major award winners, and I even found myself on a newspaper cover.
In Media Relations, I got my writing fix in with press releases, daily game notes and the annual regular season and postseason media information guides. And when I needed to be a little creative, I was a contributing writer to the club's VineLine Magazine.
I’ve been involved in several different ventures since my Baseball Chuck days, but at the heart of everything I’ve done has been the art of written communications. Words, sentences and paragraphs still matter in a 140-character world.