John W. Davis

John W. Davis is a Sports Reporter at the Long Beach Press-Telegram. He is also the UCLA Men's Basketball reporter and Los Angeles Sparks reporter for the Southern California News Group.

Based in Long Beach, he has worked on-air in local television markets as a multimedia journalist/news reporter in Orlando, Florida, and Fort Wayne, Indiana.

He has also worked as a community-based journalist covering public health, racial justice, homelessness, development, and gentrification in South Los Angeles and Inglewood. Previously, he spent several years covering the Sparks and the greater WNBA as a reporter and podcast host.

Davis is a graduate of Central Michigan University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in broadcast and cinematic arts. He is also a graduate of Syracuse University, where he received a master’s degree in broadcast journalism.

Davis is also a journalism professor at a local community college.