April 29, 2018 at 8:53 am
It’s almost impossible to pick up the paper, listen to the radio or scroll through your twitter feed without seeing something about an athlete running afoul of the law…Never mind who’s suing who or who’s being suspended…So it’s important for those who work in the sports journalism world to at least have a working knowledge […]
April 22, 2018 at 3:06 pm
Reporters want to believe that every story they do is a big one, the most important, the lead…Sadly for their egos, that’s not always the case… Big stories come in two sizes, breaking and scheduled events…Falling in the latter category would be the Super Bowl, the Olympics, the Boston Marathon…O.J. Simpson’s Bronco chase and “Deflategate” […]
April 15, 2018 at 11:06 am
Play by play is a really subjective thing…And what’s so interesting is that if you were to ask sports fans who their favorite announcers are they’d eventually get to “and ya know who i can’t stand?”… By and large you are inviting these people(the announcers) into your home and they understand that…But very often, you […]
April 8, 2018 at 10:45 am
I have to admit I’m jealous…Not that I want to be 21 again but as graduation approaches and students try and find a job, I’m amazed at the opportunities… There are two steps in securing the first position…”Finding” the job and “getting” the job….Getting the job hasn’t really changed over all these years…During the interview […]
March 25, 2018 at 10:41 am
As is often the case, anticipated guests at the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series have last minute commitments and despite being scheduled for months, I’m sometimes left scrambling for a replacement…So, when Chelsi McDonald of WHDH-TV called two days before her appearance and said she had to interview Charlie McAvoy on the date she […]
March 18, 2018 at 12:46 pm
Not in my wildest dreams did I ever think working as a journalist and now teaching Sports Journalism would ever be compared to a popular hamburger chain… But at the most recent Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar, that’s exactly what Chris Gasper of the Boston Globe did…”Like Burger King, you can have it your way”, […]
March 9, 2018 at 11:33 am
With apologies to Donna Summer, you can find just about anything on the radio, including some outrageous sports talk… “Oh, I was so surprised and shocked, and I wondered too If by chance you heard it for yourself…” You can find shockjock Howard Stern on Sirius radio, “Just shut up and dribble” Laura Ingraham is […]
February 23, 2018 at 10:24 am
Let’s face it, sometimes you just get lucky…I’m not talking Lottery lucky or race track lucky…I’m talking about something happening that changes your life, changes your outlook…And for the better… The Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series has been running for more than a dozen years now and the format is pretty much the same […]
February 18, 2018 at 12:39 pm
As strange as it might sound, being the reporter in the world of journalism might be the easiest job of all… Never mind you get to be the star of the story but just as often as not, a producer or assignment editor hands you your story, complete with scheduled interviews and if you’re really […]
February 9, 2018 at 3:12 pm
“This is who I am, we don’t need to make a huge deal out of it but we also don’t need to pretend that it’s not a factor”… And away we went….. That quote from the Boston Globe’s Nora Princiotti set the tone for our discussion on Women in Sports at this week’s edition of the […]
