If you’ve ever picked up a Daily Iowan paper or tuned into DITV, chances are you’ve heard of Ian Martin. Ian is both the executive producer of DITV and an anchor. He can be seen co-anchoring the news segment and conducting interviews for sports. Ian is responsible for going to Iowa sporting events such as basketball and football and filming and reporting for the games.
Last semester, Ian was the assistant-editor of the paper portion of the DI. He also was the men’s basketball reporter for Fran McCaffery’s first season.
If you’ve ever gone to one of the Iowa women’s volleyball games, you’ve also are likely to have heard Ian’s voice commentating the game. Ian did the play-by-play broadcasting for the Lady Hawks for the past two seasons. Additionally, Ian is a member of Student U through the Big Ten Network.
“It’s a really good opportunity,” he said. “Not many people know about it.”
Ian’s also a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity, where he has also held various leadership positions. He also partook in Dance Marathon for the past two years and this year Ian was one of the many to shave his head for the kids.
Last summer, Ian spent time with the Cedar Rapids Kernels as a broadcast intern.
“The cool part of it was I got to be basically the color commentator for all the home games,” he said. “Which, in minor league baseball is a lot of games. There were a lot of six or seven days in a row of going in.”
Ian’s internship with the Kernals wasn’t only limited to broadcasting. He also wrote game recaps for the website and other various internship duties such as getting the lineups printed out and ready for each game. Ian was also in charge of deciding what text messages that were sent during the game made it onto the screen.
“It’s a heavy pressure process actually,” Ian said. “People text in some crazy things.”
With everything on his plate, drinking lots of coffee is how Ian gets through the day. In his little free time, Ian enjoys playing basketball and watching sports. Ian’s favorite team has always been a Minnesota Vikings fan since Randy Moss began his career there. Outside of Minnesota, Ian is a fan of any Washington D.C. team, especially the Washington Nationals – who he thinks will win the 2013 World Series. After college, Ian hopes to find a job either as a TV news reporter, a play-by-play announcer for a team, or as an anchor at a TV network.
*Photo provided by Ian Martin