I know that I use social media a lot for sports journalism purposes (and in general). I found this article about social media taking over sports journalism and I thought it was very important. In this day and age, a sports journalist is falling behind if they are not on and an active user of social media.
This relates perfectly with my Social Media for Social Change Campaign because my campaign is the importance of social media use for sports journalists.Times have changed and in order to be successful, sports journalists need to use social media for many different things, as the article states. There is posting of game updates, posting articles about the games and feature articles on athletes and teams, and posting other news and notes about the sport/team that a person is covering.
The article also talks about how sports journalists also have to cover events surrounding the actual sporting event going on. The example the article gives is at the Olympics and having to cover LGBT rights. I said this recently as part of my SM4SC Campaign that even though a person is a sports journalist, they have to cover real-life events that come up. In terms of social media, if news breaks, the sports journalists can post to social media right away before posting a blog with updates and an article on the entire situation.
In the article, Lou Ferrera, who is the managing editor of the Associated Press, says that "learning to cover news should be a major focus of sports media training." I fully agree. I would be a better journalist if I could cover news events and not just sports.
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