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Fall 2020 JOU 3304 5th Class September 7, 2020
- 1. JOU 3304 Sports Writing Professor Michael Rizzo Director, Journalism Program Division of Mass Communication Collins College of Professional Studies September 7, 2020
- 2. Reminder: complete this assignment ASAP:
- 3. JOU 3304 Sports Writing Last class session PART III: COVERING A BEAT – FOOTBALL
- 4. JOU 3304 Sports Writing Today Social Media “Mobile” sports journalism
- 5. Social Media • Relevant • Timely • Often more opinionated than normal but still needs to be journalism based • Fun
- 6. Blogging/Posting • Find the “unfound” • Look for the unseen • Tell it differently
- 7. • Break some rules • MAKE IT A CONVERSATION • Edit, edit and, yes, EDIT • You are still a JOURNALIST • No small stories, only little facts (“little” meaning not long is operative idea for social media) • FIND SOMETHING NEW
- 8. Focus on functions: Entertaining Help people look at sports and smile Educational Analyze issues, present different POVs, explain impact
- 9. Editorial Persuade or recommend. Use facts and interviews to interpret and then support or knock down Excerpted from Sports Journalism: An Introduction to Reporting and Writing by Kathryn Stofer, James Schaffer and Brian Rosentahl
- 10. Carve out your spot in the sports universe • By topic • By your style (“voice”) • By your content
- 18. https://sjujournalism.wixsite.com/jou3304 I am sending an invite for you to post to this website for our course.
- 19. Assignment for Thursday September 10, 2020 Submit a Blog post now, tomorrow and Wednesday on your team and the start of their season this coming weekend. Apply the concepts discussed today and what’s presented in the textbook about posting to social media.