While mainstream outlets concentrate coverage on major leagues, niche sports fans often find themselves sidelined. Formula 1, tennis, women's sports, and NASCAR have typically received intermittent attention,

What made sports journalism worth waking up for, with the sound of a rolled up newspaper hitting the porch, is made from the same stuff that made us all fall in love with college sports in the ...

Sports journalism offers room for advancement and growth because the more you see and learn, the more your work is sought after. Here are five reasons to become a sports journalist.

The predictions in this series are often happy, joyful, optimistic about the coming year, bursting with all the promise and possibilities facing journalism in the next 12 months. Allow me to be a downer just this once. My prediction for 2024 is that there will be a major scandal involving a sports journalist and sports gambling.

Now sports journalism is trying to catch up. Without question, women’s sports offers an opportunity to energize fans / sports news consumers at a time of heavy stress on the journalism industry.

With the expansion of broadcast networks, the rise of heavily trafficked niche outlets, and ever-popular local coverage, sports journalism is one of the few beats that can be called a media growth industry. That’s why universities are recalibrating to train students for the field. Not coincidentally, sports journalism programs are first emerging at colleges that […]

The shift in the central focus of sports journalism seems to go more and more toward, I would say, TV, but it's not even TV. It's video streaming because there's so many platforms now.

COM is considering introducing a sports journalism department. SARAH CRUZ/DFP PHOTOGRAPHER Journalism Department Chair Brian McGrory wrote in an email to The Daily Free Press there are no “immediate plans” for a specific sports journalism major despite current efforts to expand sports offerings in the department.

There was, in fact, plenty of sports news to report on even without games. But as we move forward into 2021, there is one element of sports journalism that threatens the profession as we know it. The Zoom interview. As sports have returned, the usual in-person press conferences and interviews have been replaced by Zoom sessions.

Sports drives a significant portion of traffic to our website and more importantly, often leads the way in generating subscriptions. Daily news coverage, now more than ever, is heavy, hard and vital.

But he chooses not to. Sports journalist should not ignore journalistic integrity and, instead, simply write stories to satisfy their readers. “People go to media outlets that validate their pre-existing conceptions,” Barbarisi said. “Because of the fragmentation of media, they’re going to go where they can hear what they want to hear.

Liverpool’s Pursuit of Alexander Isak Hinges on Newcastle’s Transfer DecisionsLiverpool opened their Premier League campaign with a thrilling 4-2 victory over AFC Bournemouth at Anfield,