SPORTS JOURNALISM
SPORTS JOURNALISM
Sports journalism focuses on reporting amateur and professional sporting news and events. Sports journalists work in all media, including print, television broadcasting and the Internet. Sports journalists write about and report on amateur and professional sports. As a sports journalist, you can expect a variety of job duties such as reporting game statistics, interviewing coaches and players and offering game commentary. You can work in a variety of media, including radio, television and print.
Sports photojournalists take photographs of sporting events to capture the game experience in a single picture. Sports photojournalists work can be found in newspapers, television, the Internet and in magazines, like Sports Illustrated.
Sports Journalism Syllabus Dr. Anthony Curtis – Spring 2006
JRN-325-01 – MWF 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. – Old Main 237
Department of Mass Communications – University of North Carolina at Pembroke Welcome to the arena of sports journalism where the work is fun and satisfying, and you can be paid for watching sports, interviewing personalities, going behind the scenes, and traveling a lot, sometimes even around the world. Sports journalism is about people, places and events. In this course, you will practice the writing and reporting skills, and encounter the behind-the-scenes technical aspects of sports news, through a series of experiences that will include writing hard and soft news at events on and off campus. Your learning opportunity in this course will reach fulfillment in a capstone project – a major, publishable sports feature story in which you reveal the compelling story of a person, place or event. Course description: This upper-division university course is a consideration of contemporary sports reporting, including trends and philosophies of sports reporting; writing for major and minor sports; interviewing; features; columns; and legal aspects of sports reporting. Prerequisite: JRN 260.
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Sports journalism focuses on reporting amateur and professional sporting news and events. Sports journalists work in all media, including print, television broadcasting and the Internet. Sports journalists write about and report on amateur and professional sports. As a sports journalist, you can expect a variety of job duties such as reporting game statistics, interviewing coaches and players and offering game commentary. You can work in a variety of media, including radio, television and print.
Sports photojournalists take photographs of sporting events to capture the game experience in a single picture. Sports photojournalists work can be found in newspapers, television, the Internet and in magazines, like Sports Illustrated.
Sports Journalism Syllabus Dr. Anthony Curtis – Spring 2006
JRN-325-01 – MWF 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. – Old Main 237
Department of Mass Communications – University of North Carolina at Pembroke Welcome to the arena of sports journalism where the work is fun and satisfying, and you can be paid for watching sports, interviewing personalities, going behind the scenes, and traveling a lot, sometimes even around the world. Sports journalism is about people, places and events. In this course, you will practice the writing and reporting skills, and encounter the behind-the-scenes technical aspects of sports news, through a series of experiences that will include writing hard and soft news at events on and off campus. Your learning opportunity in this course will reach fulfillment in a capstone project – a major, publishable sports feature story in which you reveal the compelling story of a person, place or event. Course description: This upper-division university course is a consideration of contemporary sports reporting, including trends and philosophies of sports reporting; writing for major and minor sports; interviewing; features; columns; and legal aspects of sports reporting. Prerequisite: JRN 260.
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