The boss bellows, “I need someone to cover the (insert game here), who wants to do it?.” \u00a0What’s the first thing that goes through your mind?…You probably could come up with a lot of answers but the most important ought to be telling the story better than everyone else…<\/p>\n
It might be easier for you if you don’t cover the team every day but the fact remains, use that J school training, tell em something they don’t already know…Try and find the nuggets no one else has, don’t be a member of the pack and “go along to get along”…<\/p>\n
Beat reporting seems like the greatest job in the world..You get to go to all the practices, you travel with the team, maybe even some multi-million dollar athlete will say hi to you and use your name!…But in order to keep that job and stand out, you have to consistently be different from the other twenty five “regulars” in the room…<\/p>\n
“That’s the $64,000 question”, Mike Muldoon<\/a> of the Lawrence Eagle Tribune, told the Boston University Sports Journalism Series…”Make sure you’re not writing what everybody else is. \u00a0It’s a challenge. \u00a0There’s a lot of similarity.”…The last thing you want is to write the same story that your competitors did, not at least, on a regular basis…Making those relationships that you can later turn into information is the key….Don’t exclude anyone who’s around the team, you just never know…And how much does it hurt to say “good morning” to the security people, the “Bull Gang” or the P.R. staff… It will pay dividends later…<\/p>\n Which is not to say that every story you get told is “the one”…part of your job is to decide which one(s) to run with…”There’s a ga-zillion stories almost every night…a lot of times it comes down to prioritizing what comes down to the best story”, says Sherrod Blakel<\/a>y of ComcastSportsNet New England. ..Blakely broke a number of big stories when he was in Detroit but still talks about the one that got away because he’d never used that particular source before…<\/p>\n Make things happen for yourself…The next time the boss needs a game covered he\/she will call you first because you stood out in a crowd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The boss bellows, “I need someone to cover the (insert game here), who wants to do it?.” \u00a0What’s the first thing that goes through your mind?…You probably could come up with a lot of answers but the most important ought to be telling the story better than everyone else… It might be easier for you […]<\/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\/33"}],"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=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}