A sportswriter cannot assume people will seek out stories and information on their favorite teams. People don’t want facts. They don’t feel like browsing though boring stuff like who won the game and by how much. Who cares who the leading scorer was? No one cares what records were broken that night. People want to [...]
How to Be a Sportswriter 101
Welcome to the first of many lessons in the fine art of sports journalism. I can recall my first journalism class in whcih the professor informed us that any form of journalism, above all else, must focus on answering the 5 W’s; Who, What, Where, When, and Why. Man, what a load of crap. While scores [...]
