Sports Journalism

EXTRA CREDIT: In the comments section below, add the three things you learned from Washington Post sports writer and columnist Len Shapiro.

Deadline is noon Tuesday April 27.

GRADED EXERCISE: In the comments section below, add the three things you learned from Washington Post Sports Innovation Editor Jon DeNunzio on Tuesday March 16. Deadline is noon Thursday March 25. This is a two-day extension.

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!

I'll be checking out all your comments about my tovarich, Nate Ewell!

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 and researcher for NBC Sports at the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympic Games.

Nate joined the Capitals after spending four years in the sports information department at Michigan State University, working primarily with the hockey team. Ewell is a 1996 graduate of Princeton University, where he worked in the athletic communications office and was the sports editor of The Daily Princetonian.

GRADED EXERCISE: In the comments section below, add the three things you learned from Nate Ewell‘s presentation on Tuesday Feb. 16. Deadline is 30 minutes before class on Tuesday Feb. 23. No exceptions!

USA Today's Jeff Zillgitt

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 Whistler, B.C. Our own Ryan Harty is following Zillgitt. Zilli is a former student of mine at Michigan State; I hired him as a part-timer at the Lansing State Journal when I was sports editor there, then brought him to USA Today when I was online sports editor in 1995.