Fancy hotels, daily access to the locker room, a press pass to all the games…What could be bad?….<\/p>\n
Beat reporting is sometimes all of those but more often than not it’s a twenty four a day job and can be daunting at times…Depending on the beat you are lucky enough to secure and in what city, you might struggle for access or you might get lucky and cover hockey!……Such is the case with the latest guests to the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar Series….Greg Bedard<\/a> of the Boston Globe previously worked in Milwaukee and Miami covering the NFL before coming to Boston two years ago….Like any new reporter in town, he had to tread lightly and prove himself to the athletes and people he was covering…To his credit , Bedard faced the challenge head on…”I told Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, I’m not here to make my name off of you. I’m here to be fair and accurate about what goes on with this team and anything you can do to help me do that, I would be appreciative of that”…Bedard now enjoys a healthy respect among his peers and the team…For students wondering how they are going to handle being immersed into a new situation(read, first job), Bedard’s advice is key…<\/p>\n But beat reporters can’t expect to just travel in their own little circle…Being able to translate your skills across the board will undoubtedly help you down the line…Fluto Shinzawa<\/a> joined Bedard in the discussion and a look at his his resume is eye opening…Starting at the Boston University Daily Free Press <\/a>, Shinzawa covered the men’s hockey team, perennial powers in college play…And although it was his first love, Shinzawa knew he’d have to expand his horizons…Upon taking a job at the Concord (NH) Monitor<\/a>, he discovered the world of NASCAR, as far removed from hockey as you can get…”It was a great opportunity for me to work on something on a grander scale than Friday night football and high school sports. And it gave me an advantage when i went to look for a job at the Boston Globe. There’s not that many people with knowledge of motor sports. He (the Globe sports Editor) needed someone to help out and it was one of the best career decisions I ever made.”<\/p>\n Having inside information, knowing when to use it and the glamour of travelling with a team are all perks of job but it only comes after laying the foundation…New t owns, new jobs can throw you a curve but if you’re prepared, you’ll figure it out…Next Week: Women in Sports….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fancy hotels, daily access to the locker room, a press pass to all the games…What could be bad?…. Beat reporting is sometimes all of those but more often than not it’s a twenty four a day job and can be daunting at times…Depending on the beat you are lucky enough to secure and in what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}