by vgpetry | May 27, 2021 | Blog, Latest News
After 7 years as the team reporter for the Detroit Lions, Tori Petry announced on Twitter she is leaving her role with the team. After 7 years with the Lions, I’m starting a new chapter. It was hard to find the words to explain what this job has meant to me, but I...
by vgpetry | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog, Latest News
In order to be better prepared for her job as an NFL reporter, Tori Petry joined a women’s semi-pro football team. https://t.co/raAJsXHAgr — NPR (@NPR) February 17, 2019 NPR’s Only A Game program interviewed Tori in February of 2019 about her time playing...
by vgpetry | Sep 30, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Latest News
In fall of 2018, NBC’s Sunday Night Football launched a “Football is Female” initiative in partnership with Refinery29 where each week, they would highlight a female who worked in football around one of the two teams featured in that matchup of SNF....
by vgpetry | Sep 2, 2018 | Blog, Latest News
In August of 2018, Tori was selected to be one of nine members on her university’s Social Media Advisory Council. From the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communication’s Social Media Advisory Council website: The Advisory Council role is...
by vgpetry | Sep 1, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Latest News
As part of her responsibilities for the Detroit Lions, Tori works as the sideline reporter for the Lions’ preseason games that air on FOX2 and Fox Sports Detroit alongside play-by-play commentator Matt Shepard and color analyst Chris Spielman. During the 2018...
by vgpetry | Jun 20, 2018 | Blog, Featured, Latest News
Tori was nominated for two Emmy awards from the Michigan chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. She received the nods in both the “Reporter – Sports” category and as part of a group entry in the “Sports –...