2 Reporting

Before we can discuss the basics of sports reporting, we must first decide on our approach and style. Both issues relate to presentation rather than actual content. Approach is how we define our overall philosophy of presenting sports to our audiences and relates more to the policies of media outlets taken as a whole. Style is a little narrower perspective, in that it deals with presentation of individual stories, and is more related to the personalities of the people delivering the content.

Approach

Types of Approaches

There is an ongoing debate in journalism regarding how to view the sports media. In general, the issue centers on whether the media should present sports in a serious or a nonserious manner.

There are several arguments ...

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