Week 8
Oct 12th, 2010 by Maria Burns Ortiz
Week 8 – How has the digital age changed the sports media landscape?
Impact of the 24-hour news cycle – Part I. (Oct. 26)
Readings:
• “Have Keyboard Will Travel.” Sheelah Kolhatkar, New York Times.
• “Ten ways journalism has changed in the last 10 years.” Paul Bradshaw, Online Journalism Blog.
• “Media Landscape Redefined By 24-Second News Cycle.” The Onion.
• “10 Ways to improve online sports journalism.” Mark S. Luckie, 10,000 Words
• “Why sports has taken the lead in newsroom innovation.” Mark Coddington.
Additional Sites:
• National Sports Journalism Center. (Look over the site.)
Also make sure to read Jason Fry’s posts:
• “Travels along the Journalism Spectrum.’”
• “The Tale of Two Twitters.”
• “Twitter and Personality.”
SportsNewser. (Look over the site.)
Also make sure to read:
•“ESPN launches Heat Index.”
•“Bill Simmons Inadvertently Breaks Moss-Vikings Deal.”
•“The NHL and Foursquare Together at Last.”
•“NBA Game Time Coming to Google TV.”
•“Boston.com Goes Paid But Keeps Sports Free.”
Twitter Feeds:
• Pete Thamel (@PeteThamelNYT)
• Pat Forde (@espn4d)
• Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell)
• Bill Simmons (@sportsguy33)
• Celtics (@celtics)
• Choose two additional teams or sports journalists to follow.
Video:
• Zucker Clip on 2010 Olympic mobile (Poynter).
Blog Assignment: Monitor how you use sports media over the course of one day. Roughly how much of that is via the Web, TV and print (magazine or newspaper)? Do you follow teams/athletes/media via Twitter? Who writes the blogs you read – fans or journalists? When you hear a story where is the first place you go to confirm it – and why do you go there? How much do you use your phone (iPhone/Blackberry/etc.) vs. a computer to check sports news? Compare this briefly to how you used sports media three years ago.
Additional Assignment: Set up a Twitter account. Follow the Twitter accounts for Week 8 and Week 9. Post five sports-related “tweets.” Use a hashtag (#) in at least one tweet. Use a shortened URL in at least one tweet.
Skill: Twitter
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