JOU 3620 SPORTS JOURNALISM
Students learn the ethics of sports reporting, interviewing athletes and coaches, working with sports information, writing on tight deadlines, and composing profiles and features by reading and writing sports stories and books. Students also learn how to find narratives within individual games.
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- • write clearly and effectively stories about games and people involved in sports.
- • apply standards of truth, accuracy, and fairness in writing sports stories.
- • demonstrate ethical ways of reasoning and decision-making in covering sports.
- • understand and incorporate best practices of diversity, equity, and inclusion at sporting events and in coverage.
- • engage in research, interviewing and fact-checking for reported pieces.
- • demonstrate ability to provide and apply feedback.
- • produce work suitable for sports publications in print and digital platforms.
- • employ and engage diverse voices in sports news coverage.