Tag Archive | "Sports"
Turning to the public for journalism? Well, they did it in baseball
The inspiration for this blog post came from an idle Tuesday night in the basement of my childhood home in Saginaw, Mich. I’m watching the MLB Network (one of my new favorite channels) at around 2:30 a.m., trying to rework my biological clock to stay up until 5 a.m. since I’ll be working until that time [...]
Continue reading...Newspapers need to set their sports coverage apart and make it better than anyone else’s – even ESPN
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
I don’t write too much about sports journalism. But reading McGuire on Media’s blog post on ESPN.com and newspapers got me thinking. ESPN, the mecca of sports media, is expanding its movement to go local with sports coverage. It started with ESPN Chicago, and now it’s expanding to ESPN Boston and ESPN Dallas/Forth Worth. Pretty soon, [...]
Continue reading...Lights, camera, practice: A Final Four trip to remember
Monday, July 20, 2009
When you are a fledgling journalist, you don’t get many chances like these. I knew this three months ago, walking into Ford Field in Detroit, Mich., for the fourth time in two years. All three previous trips were for CMU football games as a beat writer, including two Motor City Bowls. This trip was similar in [...]
Continue reading...“The shot that got away” – why, as primarily a writer, I now truly respect a photojournalist’s job
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Photography always has been an essential part of a newspaper. The main photo on a front page usually is the first thing you see when you pass a news stand. Photos give pages personality. They accent the reporting. But in working in newsrooms the last four years or so, I’ve learned that many times, the photo [...]
Continue reading...Who am I?
The future of news media has never been more exciting to me.
I am a multifaceted young journalist currently working as online sports producer at The Arizona Republic. I interned at The Grand Rapids Press over the summer, and previously served as 2009-10 editor in chief of Central Michigan Life, the award-winning student publication of Central Michigan University.
I was named 2009 College Journalist of the Year by the Michigan Press Association, and graduated from CMU in May 2010 with a degree in journalism and media design. I spent the summer of 2009 at The Grand Rapids Press as a copy desk intern, and summer 2008 at The Saginaw News as a metro reporting intern.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
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