Sports Journalism

Catalog description

This course focuses on the skills of writing, reporting, interviewing, and analyzing in the context of sports media. Students will learn how to develop strategies for sports coverage in a variety of forms, including straight news, features, opinion, and investigative work. Students will be expected to produce content and ideas for written copy, photographs, and video or audio segments. The course will also introduce students to the uniqueness of covering specific sports beats each week.