I'm a journalist, producer, and editor obsessed with sports, equity, and history. I love conducting interviews to find the perfect source, scouring archives for revelatory footage, and putting the puzzle pieces together in the edit.
About
Amelia Jarecke is a multimedia journalist, producer, and editor. She spent the last six months producing feature and investigative stories at the intersection of sports and society for Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO.
Prior to Real Sports, Jarecke worked for D.C. documentary production company Spark Media assisting in editing The People’s Recorder, a podcast about the 1930’s Federal Writers’ Project. She also produced a visual investigation about national policing practices for the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism’s collaborative reporting project with the Associated Press that is set to be published in spring 2023.
As a student at the University of Maryland, she directed and edited three award-winning videos. “High Stakes Hoops,” a documentary short about a Maryland high school basketball team that joined a national conference with games streaming on ESPN+, won Best Documentary Short at the 2022 Queen City Film Festival. Her animated explainer video, "Why Title IX has not meant equity for high school girls sports," is part of an investigative project that won first place in the 2022 Associated Press Sports Editors contest. “The Flyover State," a mini-documentary about the sandhill crane migration in Jarecke’s home state of Nebraska won a 2021 Gracie Award for women in media.
