Communication Studies: Sports Journalism

How best to turn yourself from sports fan to professional sports journalist? Gisondi gives on hands-on, practical advice on covering 20 specific sports from where to stand on the sideline and how to identify a key player to figuring out shot selection in lacrosse . Gisondi includes brief chapters on writing, interviewing, blogging, covering fantasy sports, and radio broadcasting.

This book covers the full experience of sports writing, including the stages of article writing and stylistic ande thical issues in other types of sports stories, such as columns, profiles, and news. The authors also offer insights as to what to expect as a sports reporter.

This book explores professional, college, and international sports organizations structure, governance, labor issues, and other business factors. It includes historical, current, and hypothetical cases to illustrate how business concerns play a role in the reporting of sports. New features include disciplinary policies in the major sports leagues, discussion of intellectual property issues and merchandising, and new sections on ethical issues in sports.

"A Sportswriter s Life "is a revealing look at the people and events that were part of the history of sports from a perspective of a veteran NYT sports reporter. Eskenazi reveals how he dealt with many larger-than-life sports personalities and uncovers many intriguing and amusing stories.

Since he first joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, Frank Deford has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. Interwoven through his personal history, Deford traces American sportswriting from the early years of the NBA up to the 24-hour sports world of ESPN.

The campaign to desegregate baseball was one of the most important civil rights stories of the 1930s and 1940s. But most of white America knew nothing about this story because mainstream newspapers said little about the color line and less about the efforts to end it. Chris Lamb reveals how differently black and white newspapers, and black and white America, viewed racial equality. He shows how white mainstream sportswriters perpetuated the color line by participating in what their black counterparts called a “conspiracy of silence.” Between 1933 and 1945, black newspapers and the Communist Daily Worker published hundreds of articles and editorials calling for an end to baseball’s color line. The efforts of the alternative presses to end baseball’s color line, chronicled for the first time in Conspiracy of Silence, constitute one of baseball’s—and the civil rights movement’s—great untold stories.

Sports Journalism chronicles how and why technology, religion, social movements, immigration, racism, sexism, social media, athletes, and sportswriters and broadcasters changed sports as well as how sports are covered and how news about sports are presented and disseminated. Sports Journalism also examines the ethics of sports journalism, how sports coverage frequently has differed from that of non-sports news, and how the internet has spawned a set of new ethical issues. &