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Sports Journalism: A Multimedia Primer by Rob Steen PDF

By Rob Steen

ISBN-10: 0415742137

ISBN-13: 9780415742139

Sports Journalism is a entire advisor to the aim, rules and perform of this detailed career. Now in an absolutely revised and up-to-date moment version, together with vital new fabric on social media and the increase of online journalism, this is often nonetheless the single e-book to discover the basics of activities reporting throughout each media platform.

Combining an creation to useful talents, contextual dialogue of the altering media surroundings, and significant case stories, together with the ground-breaking tale of Lance Armstrong, the booklet covers key issues reminiscent of:

  • essential relationships in activities journalism - networking and the activities table
  • print journalism for magazines, tabloids, broadsheets and the web
  • live motion – information, radio and tv activities journalism
  • effective learn – dealing with and gaining access to resources, details, information
  • practical abilities for coping with schedules and assembly points in time
  • working with activities brokers and PR execs
  • getting the easiest from press meetings and interviews.

Laced with revealing anecdotes from the author's personal thirty years’ adventure of family and overseas activity journalism, and together with questions in every one bankruptcy to motivate severe mirrored image and notes on extra studying, Sports Journalism is the last word insider’s advisor and a useful scholar companion.

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Sportswriting there, about boxing and baseball especially, acquired a cachet and credibility unmatched elsewhere. There are two obvious differences between the way sport is covered there and in Britain. (1) As a direct consequence of the sheer size of the country, there is a virtual absence of national newspapers; not until the populist USA Today in the last quarter of the twentieth century did one emerge. This means that city, state and regional stories and issues are deemed of greater import than those of national or international interest.

Newspapers caught the mood, too: England’s first daily broadsheet sports section, in the Daily Telegraph, also debuted in 1990. Then there was John McEnroe, who in 1984 came closer to winning tennis’s Grand Slam than any male player since Rod Laver in 1969 and who wins my vote for the most fascinating sporting champion of that or any era. Because of his rare blend of touch, power, speed and innovative technique, many sound judges regard him as the finest all-round player of the professional era, as audacious on the baseline as he was dextrous at the net.

Because of his rare blend of touch, power, speed and innovative technique, many sound judges regard him as the finest all-round player of the professional era, as audacious on the baseline as he was dextrous at the net. It is almost impossible to imagine anyone resisting popularity quite so resolutely as baseball’s Ty Cobb, a wizard at hitting, catching, throwing and running, a competitor without peer, but also a paranoid psychopath reviled with equal vehemence by teammates and opponents; McEnroe gave him a run for his money, alienating those who would otherwise have been only too willing to kiss his feet.

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