campus journalism

• sports journalism - is a specialized field of writing which combines news reporting, editorial writing and feature writing
• Sports journalism - is a form of writing that reports on sporting topics and games.
• Sports journalism - requires a pile of knowledge about plays and games including rules and regulations which are, from time to time, subject to change and are updated.
• Sports journalism - uses sports jargon or lingo and statistical data
• Sports writing - necessitates the creativity of features, the directness of news, the delicateness

  of editorials and the sharpness of cartoons and comics.
• Sports article follows the lead-body-ending format.
• Sports Writer are expected to :

  1. have interest in all sports events
  2. know the rules and regulations of the game
  3. have a knowledge of sports lingo
• the lead - summarizes the event by giving the significance, the winner, the hero, the score, the place and time or date when the event happened.
• lead of a sports story - it is the attention getter, 5Ws (who, whom, what, where and when)
• types of lead:

  1. the key play lead
  2. the outstanding player lead
  3. analytical approach lead
• the body - It contains the play-by-play account of the game
• conclusion - It usually contains quotes from players and coaches.
• photojournalism - is a particular form of journalism that creates images in order to tell a news story
• documentary - to keep records about the event
• landscape - photos of a scenery without the presence of people
• portrait - photos that focuses on people
• snapshots - photos taken quickly
• street photography - photos centered on the streets
• stages photographs - photos taken in a studio
• advertising - photos that are centered on the product that they are trying to sell
• fashion - photos that focuses on the attire than the person
• fantasy images - photos that are not realistic
• exposure - the amount of light collected by the sensor
• angle of light - used for special effectts and also uses the shadows that can be powerful
• composition - combining of distinct parts to form a whole
• When taking photos consider the

  • Rule of Thirds
  • Leading Lines
  • Framing
  • Simplicity
  • Colors
• photography - captures people, places and events that are worth to be treasured
• photojournalism - captures people, places and events that are news worthy
• captions -

  • explains what is happening in the picture
  • allows hurried readers to get a glimpse of the news
• photo caption - provides the reader basic information about the picture
• cutline - a short explanation that accompanies the photograph
• Copyreading - gives final touches to an article and removes all unnecessary and irrelevant materials and improves the article
• headline writing - writes a proper headline
• copy fixer - makes the story better
• headline - summarizes the lead
• lead - summarizes the story
• Headline Structures

  • Flush left - Flush right
  • Pyramid - Dropline