Second Entry

Johnny Jackson
2-4-09

The second week of my Sports Reporting class got even better. My teacher told his famous Packer story, where this guy put his favorite die-hard football team before his wife. After the story Mr. Schlossberg went on to say in so many words that sports come before your significant other. He does have a point because girlfriends come and go and my favorite teams keep finding space in my room. Cool Theory!

Anyway the class had an assignment to look up different story-telling techniques that other people have done. Some of the links were cool like the Indianaopolis Star has a link where you can compare Manning to single season games to Playoff games. Also it look like you can tell who he threw to the first time and last time in his rookie year; lets say any game! Here is the link: http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/articles%20AID=/99999999/SPORTS0301/80409049


Another site was USA Today: Finding NFL Talent. The site featured every college football player going back to 88. You click on the state where they're from or played at in High School and it tells you a little about that person. Here is the link
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/draft-history-graphic.htm


Another site featured a profile of a 100k ultra-running competition. It was more of a profile technique, about who the person is and where they came from. Here is the link
http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/hellgate/interactive.html


In short I knew it was different ways of telling a story because of all the publications in the world. In class we discussed about everybody doing the same-story, but how is yours going to be different from others? What's your angle going to be? You never know who your audience is? Like profile, pictures,diagr So being a Journalist may and should require a reporter to have more than one technique...I mean thats if you want to get out your corner at work.

Remind me of this funny CarrerBuilder commercial that I saw doing the Super Bowl about people not liking their job. I'll save that for another time.