A free pass to every game…lots of travel and luxury hotels….a credentialed press box seat…what could be bad?…..<\/p>\n
Well, if you, if you work at your craft and don’t mind putting in the hours, the answer can easily be “nothing!”…<\/p>\n
Getting your own beat is a reward…But \u00a0talk to any veteran whose been doing the job and they’ll likely point out the dangers and the pitfalls of the job rather than the perks…It’s hard work and you earn your stripes…Whether it’s baseball that plays every day or football that’s once a week, you’re expected to have information no one else does…and there’s no rest for the weary, it’s got to be fresh and you need to be alert…”You try during the course of a game to think this is what’s gonna happen and I’ll play it off that (when i write) but when things change, you really might have to adjust in a hurry because what you want to write about doesn’t make much sense”, so said The Boston Globe<\/em>‘s Peter Abraham at a recent Boston University sports journalism seminar\u00a0…<\/p>\n And fresh as it may have to be, it sometimes sting…Not everything will be positive and reporters have come to learn they’ll hear about it…Not that it’s wrong but that the player doesn’t like it…And here’s where you earn a piece of your paycheck…If you wrote something negative about a player, show up \u00a0and take the heat…WEEI.com<\/em>‘s Chris Price has been there numerous times and while it’s not fun, it’s part of the job; “If you’re a beat reporter and you write something like that, it’s important to be there the next day, they gain a level of respect for you if you can back up your words.”…adds Abraham, “Especially if you’re gonna see the guy every day, you can’t make it to a point where you’re glaring at each other because of something like that, that doesn’t help you…”<\/p>\n You’re writing, you’re blogging, you’re tweeting, maybe you’re even appearing on the tube …it’s part of the job and like any other job, there are rules you need to know…and oh yeah, if you’re really good at it, you just might get your picture at the top of the column!…what could be bad?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A free pass to every game…lots of travel and luxury hotels….a credentialed press box seat…what could be bad?….. Well, if you, if you work at your craft and don’t mind putting in the hours, the answer can easily be “nothing!”… Getting your own beat is a reward…But \u00a0talk to any veteran whose been doing the […]<\/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\/75"}],"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=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}