Daniel Berk joined Arizona Athletics as an Assistant Director of Communication Services in September 2015. He serves as the primary media relations contact for baseball and the secondary contact for football, while overseeing the communications services editorial calendar.
Berk joined the University of Arizona after eight years as a professional journalist for the Arizona Daily Sun in Flagstaff and the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson. Prior to his time in Arizona, Berk had an associate reporter internship for MLB.com, covering the St. Louis Cardinals in 2007.
At the Daily Sun, Berk was hired to cover Northern Arizona University football and local prep sports. After one year, he was promoted to Sports Editor, while still having the responsibility of covering the football and basketball programs.
In August 2010, Berk accepted a job with the Daily Star in Tucson to serve as the prep sports coordinator. He also took on the responsibility of covering several of Arizona’s Olympic Sports, such as women’s basketball, volleyball and baseball. He was also assigned as the beat writer of the Tucson Padres, the Triple-A affiliate of the San Diego Padres.
In April 2013, Berk was promoted to Arizona football and baseball beat writer for the Daily Star. He covered the football program for two-plus seasons, earning Daily Star Employee of the Year in 2014 after producing more than 400 bylines in a calendar year.
After more than five years at the Daily Star, Berk was hired at the University of Arizona to serve as the primary media relations contact for women’s basketball, while also overseeing the men’s and women’s golf programs. Six months into the job, Berk was shifted into the baseball/football role, while also organizing content for ArizonaWildcats.com.
A native of Chesterfield, Mo., Berk graduated from the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Kansas in 2006.
