Deadline Schedule for Basketball Special Section-2018

Deadline Schedule for Basketball Special Section-18

Tuesday---Nov. 6-Section concepts and ideas

Thursday---Nov. 8- Finalize all writing assignments. Finalize Graphic concept-Finalize design assignments, photo and video assignments

Tuesday---Nov. 13- Editorial update meeting (only EIC and editorial team required to come, everyone welcome)

Thursday---Nov. 15-Photo and Design update meeting (only EIC and design team required to come, everyone welcome) (Third Blog post due)

Tuesday---Nov. 20- Final design page templates due-(design team only) Completed drafts (digital and hard copies) of editorial content due to editors and professor.

THANKSGIVING

Tuesday—Nov. 27- Copy edit and finalize story and photo placement. Cover Ohio University Eastern Game

Thursday---Nov. 29-Interview for Basketball game story

Tuesday—Dec. 4- Final version of all pages due, ready to submit to Rocket editors.

Thursday-Dec. 6-Meet for any editing changes or problems

Thursday-Dec. 13- (Fourth blog post due)

Feature Stories

These feature sports stories were produced by John Weisbarth, an Emmy winning sports journalist out of California. Take a look at them as inspiration for some feature sports stories of our own.

Joe DiGangie-Personality Profile

Expectations-Backgrounder/Preview

Crew-Personality Profile/Backgrounder

Here is a link to an interesting feature story we will talk about in class.

Milan football dad refuses to miss his son's senior season, says no to chemotherapy

Sports Blogging-Some Advice

    Here are some basic principles 

    to help your sports blogging:

* Be balanced, mixing positive with negative.

* Report

* One source is acceptable.

* Traditional  journalism guidelines are relaxed

* Build a relationship

* Develop a voice

* Find a niche

* Keep your writing conversational

* Link to others

    
Here are some links to a variety of sports blogs. Check them out:

SlamOnline

Baseball Musings

Soccer blog

Did the Tribe Win Last Night

People for Bikes 

Curling History

Blog Post Assignment for Sports Journalism

Former Missouri Coach Gary Pinkel is now number 2 on the all-time win list
at Missouri. Dan Devine is the winningest coach in Missouri history.

As part of your work for this class I want you to get involved in blogging and using social media to promote your online work. I want you to establish a blog with a unique name and sports angle that will attract readers. For the purposes of this class I would like you to use the website Blogger  or Wix to create your blog. Blogger is part of the Google universe. It is easy to set up and use. Wix is a little more complicated but it will create a nicer looking blog. Be sure and use one of the Blog templates if you choose Wix. If you already have a sports blog then you need to set up a new one.

So what are the guidelines for your blog entries? I am looking for engaging, interesting reporting and observations about sports. Writing for blogs is much more conversational in style and generally more subjective than other sports writing your might do. I expect each blog entry to be at least 300 words but they could be much longer if your feel so moved. Be careful about using copyrighted images in your blog. I know this is common practice on the internet but most sports teams and universities copyright their images and they can get litigation happy if they get angry. Photopin is a good resource for copyright free images from Flickr and other photo sharing sites. You can also go use the advanced search option in Google Images to narrow your search to non-copyrighted images.  Both of the Missouri Tigers images I have used on this site came from Photopin.
Once you have written your blog entry you need to promote it by posting links on the class Facebook page and on Twitter with the hashtab #srusj. If you do not have a Facebook or Twitter account then you need to start one. Sorry, that is the world we live in now.

Your blog needs to be up and running with links posted on Facebook and Twitter by 2 pm on Thursday, October 18th. Be prepared to discuss the name and angle of your blog. Your first entry on the blog will be due by 2 pm on Tuesday, October 23rd. 

The Rules of Volleyball

We are going to be writing a volleyball game story this week so we need to get familiar with the ever-changing rules of modern volleyball. I think the nice Christian girls from Messiah College, located just south of Harrisburg, do a much better job of describing the basics than I could. We'll talk about the details in class.

By U.S. Navy photo by Midshipman 4th Class Dominic Montez [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

This blog is dedicated to the Sports Journalism class at Slippery Rock University and also to the seemingly always struggling Missouri Tigers sports programs. MIZZOU!!