Geoff Herbert | gherbert@syracuse.com

Geoff "DeafGeoff" Herbert is a Reporter and SEO Lead for syracuse.com | The Post-Standard and Advance Media New York. He covers a wide range of topics, including entertainment (music, movies, TV, events), Upstate New York life, and national news, plus specializes in search engine optimization. Herbert was born with a profound binaural hearing loss, is adept at lipreading, and serves as a motivational speaker for corporate events, schools, disability groups and other special events. Despite being mostly deaf, he also works as a wedding DJ in Syracuse and Upstate NY and previously spent 10 years in radio as an on-air personality. Herbert graduated from Syracuse University's Newhouse School in 2005.