Wes Hodkiewicz - Journalism, Packers, Relationships & Telling the Story - Episode #75

Wes Hodkiewicz is a Senior Writer for the Green Bay Packers and a lifelong Wisconsinite who has spent his career documenting the pulse of Titletown. A 2006 graduate of Bay Port High School and an alumnus of UW-Green Bay, Wes worked his way up from taking calls at the high school sports desk for Gannett to becoming one of the most trusted voices in Wisconsin sports journalism. Before joining the Packers organization in 2016, Wes spent nearly a decade as the Packers beat reporter for the Green Bay Press-Gazette. Today, he is a primary contributor to Packers.com, known for his insightful game analysis, his popular "Insider Inbox" column, and his ability to "humanize the player behind the facemask" through long-form storytelling.

In this episode, Brad and Wes talk about his career, paying dues and the value of hard work, realizing mistakes are inevitable and growing from them, his passion for telling the story, "working in the toy store" covering the Packers, finding points of connection, the value of the human voice in the face of AI, and, Aaron Rodgers (at Brad's request, obviously).

https://www.packers.com/author/wes-hodkiewicz

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