Dave Goren is in his 14th year as the executive director of the National Sports Media Association (https://nationalsportsmedia.org), which moved to Winston-Salem in 2017. The NSMA honors sports media for excellence and provides educational programs for future generations of sports media.
Goren joined the NSMA after an award-winning 24-year career in local television sports; the last 20 years of which were spent at WXII-TV in Winston-Salem, NC. Goren was voted by his peers as the NSMA’s 2008 North Carolina Sportscaster of the Year. During his tenure, he also won awards from the Carolinas Radio and Television News Directors Association, and from USTA Southern.
In addition to his NSMA duties, he serves as sideline reporter for Wake Forest University football on the Wake Forest Sports Properties network and serves as the director of the Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association (ACSMA). He is also a Professor of the Practice at Wake Forest University, where he teaches a class in sports broadcasting (fall semesters 2017-2020). He also taught a sportscasting class at High Point University in 2014.
When he’s not working, Goren spends much of his time volunteering. He has served since 2012 on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication at High Point University. And the last two years, he participated in the “Men Who Cook” fundraiser to benefit the SECU Family House in Winston-Salem.
Among his other volunteer duties:
Wake Forest Business School media panel (moderator);
National Sports Journalism Center (panelist);
College Media Institute’s Sports Reporting Workshop (presenter);
Association for Women in Sports Journalism (AWSM) convention (panelist/moderator);
American Public University System (Industry Advisory Council);
State Games of North Carolina (Local Organizing Committee);
Basket Ball gala for Coaches vs Cancer (local board);
Salisbury (NC) Rotary Club (Board of Directors);
Radio and Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas awards (judge);
Newhouse Sports Media Center at Syracuse University (search committee to hire first director).
Goren is also a frequent guest on sports radio talk shows and podcasts, as well as a frequent emcee and speaker at civic clubs and school and charity events throughout North Carolina. He was inducted into the Winston-Salem Forsyth County High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2017.
Goren retired after a 15-year career as a low-scoring winger in the Piedmont Hockey Association. He lives in Lewisville, NC, with his wife Ada. They are the parents of sons AJ and Max, and hound dog, Sophie.
