JOUR 322 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Lagrangian Point, Journalism, Trust Law
12 Oct 2018
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JOUR 322
MIDTERM EXAM
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Fall 2018
JOUR 322 L1 & 2
-If you are a sports reporter you will be on the go a lot
-It is not a 9-5 jo. A lot of eekeds ad ights eause that’s he sports are usually.
-Sports, especially at TV station of Newspaper, you are a poor relation of the news room.
-Eerod thiks that ou’re just there to hae fu
-It’s ot just goig out to oer a gae that’s fu
-If ou are the ahor, ou’e got oe perso as reporter, so ou’re doig a stor orkig oo
to whatever to get it done. If a press conference calls at 8 am, you have to cover it. Usually
smaller stations only have 3 ish people in their department.
Sports Journalism
Why Sports? What do we think about when we think about sports media?
What we do as sports journalists is building relationships.
- we could be the 23rd reporter the’e talked to that da. Athletes a get tired of askig
questions etc.
-people are mesmerized by sports. We assume we will always have an audience.
-Sports has been a part of us since as long as it has existed.
-Athletes have more roles than just playing their sports. There is more to cover than just the
sports.
-ake the effort to ko ad uderstad the sport. If ou do’t ko, ask!
-Poor relatio ithi jouralists
Sometimes newsrooms think of sports as the poor relatio. Oh, the sports people just
hae fu.
Pereptio that sports hae soft jouralisti praties
Eaple: Whe e go to the press o, there’s alas food. If ou oer a ajor league
aseall gae, there’s alas food, driks, it sees ore laid back. This could be
viewed as a conflict of interest or bias of them giving you things to report better on
them.
“ports are softer ore feauture tpe of stories. It’s less hard es.
You do’t hae to dig for a stor, eerthig is right i front of you type of thing.
When we are covering a team, what is our relationship with sources? As a sports
reporter, building those relationships is different than what a news reporter would do
because you continually see these people over and over. News reporters do’t see their
sources over and over and over again like sports reporters might.
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Sports reporters sometimes travel with the team, or go to the same sources
otiuousl. the are spedig all this tie together!! lah lah
As journalists, we need to make sure that we are holding ourselves accountable for the things
that people might be viewing us as. Keeping a professional relationship with our sources.
Make sure we are away and following good journalistic ethical practices. We want to have
integrity.
Sports in Society
Viewership is declining for sports on television
Many sports events are broadcast on pay/cable broadcast networks
Even the NFL, the most watched sport has seen a decline in viewership
Newspapers are declining in readership
People can get sports from a lot of different places now. We have streaming online etc.
Millennials stream twice as much as the Generation X
Millennials are social media fans
60% of millennials check scores and sports news on social media vs. Generation X.
“oeties this eas that if ou’re a riter, ou ight hae to lear ho to shoot ideo ad
learn what people like to watch.
If ou’re ideo, ou ight hae to lear ho to rite.
You have to change the way you work! You have to reach your audience where they want to be
reached.
You have to get the most out of everything you do
You have to think creatively and act efficiently
Tools to tell the story
-text
-still photos
-video
-data mapping
-interactive graphics
-user contributed material
-blogging
-social media
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