{"id":426,"date":"2018-01-27T13:02:31","date_gmt":"2018-01-27T18:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=426"},"modified":"2018-01-27T13:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-01-27T18:02:31","slug":"what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2018\/01\/27\/what-do-you-want-to-be-when-you-grow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

So you think you want to work in the “glamorous” world of sports journalism, do you?<\/p>\n

But before you answer that, ask yourself if you have what it takes….You’ve decided you’re all in to “low pay, long hours”\u00a0 mindset but there’s a lot more to it\u00a0 in 2018…Can you shoot and edit your own video?…Can you format a show?…Do you have your own website (and can you write the code for it)?…Those are the systems you can learn but how do you get your point across when the competition is so fierce?<\/p>\n

At our most recent Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar, W-E-E-I Site Editor Rob Bradford<\/a>\u00a0hit the nail on the head with his very first statement…Said Bradford, “In a nutshell, it’s more about getting the person to look at your stories than it is the actual story.\u00a0 You have to grab them”…<\/p>\n

Ouch!…<\/p>\n

It’s not enough to just produce the work but you have to bring the readers\/viewers into the tent as well (and maybe first)…That’s a scary proposition, maybe even more so when looking for that first job…You’re unsure of yourself as is, let alone worrying about people liking you and your material from the jump…<\/p>\n

Our other guest that same night, Emerson Lotzia<\/a> of NESN, explained his early travels down the broadcast road and, like Bradford, laid it out for those in attendance;\u00a0 “You can only explain to them how much of a grind it is until you’re actually into it.\u00a0 You don’t realize the ridiculous(ly) long days and long hours and everything that’s ahead of you.\u00a0 You’re going to be producing, shooting your own content.\u00a0 You’re going to be anchoring, you’re going to be editing.\u00a0 I was a one man band for eight years till I came to Boston but that was how I sold myself to those stations.”… Interestingly, one of the things Lotzia came to realize was that in perfecting those skills he was positioning himself ahead of the veterans who were resistant to the so called “new technology” and new way of doing business…<\/p>\n

We spent a lot of time talking about the process of sports journalism in 2018 but not as much about what it is…Well, it’s sports talk radio, it’s “hot topics”, it’s tweeting and Instagram, all of it and more …And yes, it’s well produced material, well written,\u00a0 well shot, well edited…That all counts…But for me the highlight of the night was when Bradford said he envied the students in the class for the skills they had!….<\/p>\n

If I’ve had anything<\/em> to do with that, I’ve done my job…<\/p>\n

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So you think you want to work in the “glamorous” world of sports journalism, do you? But before you answer that, ask yourself if you have what it takes….You’ve decided you’re all in to “low pay, long hours”\u00a0 mindset but there’s a lot more to it\u00a0 in 2018…Can you shoot and edit your own video?…Can […]<\/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\/426"}],"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=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}