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.

First Entry

On Monday Jan 26, 2008 my Sports Reporting class from last semester simply turned into a newer and more advanced class of just simply talking about a part of my life. My teacher from last semester always finds something to say in class that makes talking about Sports better than making money.

In this particular class I saw an old video clip of Mike Tyson threatening a reporter, along with Allen Iverson proudly wearing the Sixers on his jersey. A video that didn't scare me but I'm looking forward to being a reporter. That way when players get mad at me for certain questions I ask I can say it louder to get my answer. That's not why I want to be a reporter, but I have to be ready for anything. My editor is just going to tell me to make the answer come out.

Mike Reilly a graduate in Journalism was introduced to helping teach the class. It looks like i might need another notebook from all the knowledge that's coming my way.

He helped the class set up their own personal blogs. I'm like yea my own words on the net. My own thoughts with the power to show others. Excited isn't the word...it's more like my thoughts are now finally going to be heard. I guess i should clean my mailbox for all the fans that's going to be e-mailing me.

I like the fact that I'm apart of two classes experimenting on a project. Print and Broadcast together equals one tuition for double the knowledge. I mean I heard stories of people starting out having to know more thanjust writing stories. Learning about broadcast can help me in the long run for having the facts and data of the editing process of T.V.

The only thing that is going to be difficult to chew is being able to write about what we want to in class and entering the real world and receiving stories from your editor that might not be important to me.