Sports Journalism

GRADED EXERCISE: In the comments section below, add the three things you learned from BJ Koubaroulis and Drew Phelps’ presentation on Tuesday Feb. 23. Deadline is 30 minutes before class on Tuesday March 2. No exceptions!

Your comment must be posted by 30 minutes before the Tuesday March 2 class. You must include the URL of the column or blog item so that others can read it, too. Let me know if you have any questions. Classmate Rob Elliott is following LaVar Arrington of WJFK radio, 106.7 The Fan. Keep in mind […]

Jim Iovino is the web editor for NBC News4/WRC. GRADED EXERCISE: In the comments section below, add the three things you learned from Jim Iovino’s presentation on Thursday Feb. 18. Deadline is 30 minutes before class on Thursday Feb. 25. No exceptions!

Nate Ewell is in his seventh season with the Washington Capitals, his fifth leading the team’s media relations efforts. Washington has earned the Dick Dillman Award as the top media relations staff in the NHL’s Eastern Conference each of the last three years. Ewell, who is the co-founder and co-owner of InsideCollegeHockey.com, was a writer […]

Your comment must be posted by 30 minutes before the Tuesday Feb. 23 class. You must include the URL of the column or blog item so that others can read it, too. Let me know if you have any questions. USA Today reporter Jeff Zillgitt is reporting and Tweeting from the luge and bobsled track in […]

To my disappointment, and likely to some of yours, too, I saw many of the same errors (especially comma faults and compound adjectives), five factual errors (compared to one in your sports autobiographies), and some very poorly crafted sentences. Whatever happened to CRAFT every sentence? Whatever happened to reread, revise, rewrite and proofread (far too […]

Alan Goldenbach spoke to my Sports Writing & Reporting class at George Mason University on Feb. 4. Always generous with his time, Alan couldn’t answer all the students’ questions in class, so he took them home with him and now answers online. Feel free to comment in the trackback section below. Alan writes: My apologies […]

Your comment must be posted by 30 minutes before the Tuesday Feb. 16 class. You must include the URL of the column or blog item so that others can read it, too. Let me know if you have any questions. Pictured above: Boston Globe sports writer, columnist, blogger and all-around media star Bob Ryan has worked […]